Unintentional Injury Prevention Tool Box

American Academy of Pediatrics: Provides injury and age-specific guidelines. 

American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Can You Recognize a Concussion? Provides information about the three grades of concussions and how to recognize each type. This information is important for athletes, teammates, parents, and coaches.

American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons: How Safe Is Your Child’s Playground? Provides a list of 16 questions to determine if your child’s play area is safe.

Keep Kids Healthy: CPR and Kids: Discusses why you should learn CPR, links to local CPR training courses, and provides basic information about CPR.

Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Unintentional Injury and Violence Prevention: Best Practices for Unintentional Injury Prevention

University of Missouri-Columbia Extension: Prevention and Treatment of Burns—Miscellaneous Causes: Provides a list of common causes of burns in the home, what to do in case of a burn, when a burn is considered critical, and also how to take action during a fire.

Parent Safety Checklists

Safe Kids Campaign

• Home: Protecting Your Family: How to childproof your home in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and around the house. Also includes tips about what to do in an emergency.

• Summer Safety for Kids. Includes tips on how to protect your children from sports injuries with prevention ideas for before the game and what to do during the game.

• Water Safety for Kids: Provides a list of helpful tips on how you can eliminate drowning hazards, including pools safety and other water safety tips.

Shriners International Headquarters: Emergency Treatment of Burns: Lists the steps to emergency treatment of thermal, chemical, and electrical burns.

U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

• Public Playground Safety Checklist: Provides a list of 10 simple items to ensure your child’s safety on the playground.

• Home Playground Safety Tips: Provides a list of 8 tips to ensure child safety around the home, both indoors and outdoors.

• Prevent Child In-Home Drowning Deaths. Outlines different prevention ideas, including guidelines for fences and other barriers, that can help prevent child drownings in pools. Also provides a list of rules to ensure pool safety.

Other Resources

• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC
• National Highway Traffic Safety Transportation Administration, DOT
• National Conference of State Legislatures, Childhood Injury Prevention Laws
• Injury Control Resource Information Network, Center for Injury Research and Control, University of Pittsburgh

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