Safety at home, in the community and beyond
A safe home environment is essential to health and wellbeing, throughout life. Safety within our homes has a great influence on our health but is an area where perhaps we don’t give enough attention to.
Accidents happen more in the home than anywhere else. There are countless home safety hazards such as falls and fires but being aware of them is the first step to preventing accidents.
Children under five, older people and the vulnerable, are most likely to have an accidents at home, so home safety hazards are something we should all be aware of. Look at the link below or the local and national resources to get started.
Preventing accidents in the home
Safety outside of the home is also important to our health so a range of additional resources are shown below, a range of information from how we travel, stay safe in water to being aware of product and food recalls.
Toy Safety Advice for Christmas
Buying toys for Christmas is exciting, but it’s important to choose ones that are safe—especially for young children. Children under 3 are most at risk because they explore by putting things in their mouths. Their airways are smaller, so choking is a serious danger. Read the Child Accident Prevention Trust factsheet

















