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Articles on Children’s Safety
How many button batteries are in your home? After counting remotes, key fobs and toys, don’t forget the ones in ...
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Most parents and caregivers just cannot believe that they would ever "forget" their child in a vehicle. And that disbelief ...
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Nicole Hughes has a crucial message for parents and other adults: Don’t assume children are being supervised and kept safe ...
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It’s time to throw open the windows—but do so carefully. Windows rank as one of the top hidden hazards in ...
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More children ages 5-14 go to emergency rooms for bicycle-related injuries than with any other sport, and many of these ...
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Campbell Rogoff (right) with her co-counselor Lily Rae Eight-year-old Campbell Rogoff got the idea while playing with a 5-year-old neighbor ...
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A campfire casts a warm glow and a sense of adventure—even if it’s in your own backyard. Cooking dinner outside ...
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NYS Senator Joe Robach, Marlene Hamman-Whitmore and Rochester Fire Marshal Christine Schryver judge the posters Talented young artists from schools ...
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Child-resistant caps on medication bottles have helped reduce fatal poisonings of young children in the U.S. since they were mandated ...
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All second-graders in Milwaukee Public Schools will be learning lessons from Prevention 1st’s Before the Fire: Prevention Works curriculum as ...
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Fire Safety: Teaching an Essential Life Skill to Teens With Intellectual Disabilities ...
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Effective fire prevention and survival skills—life skills that can protect young lives now and in their future lives—are more than ...
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Cooking is the most common cause of home fires. Foodlink, a regional food bank serving 10 counties in Greater Rochester, ...
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Young children and people with developmental disabilities are among those at highest risk from fire. At the Mississippi Fire Chiefs’ ...
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When we think of preventable injuries, we may not think of our ears. But hearing loss is a growing health ...
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Swimming can be one of the great joys of a child's summer. But its important to be vigilant around water, ...
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Many people don't think of sparklers as a hazard, and readily hand them to children. In the states that ...
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Sometimes when we at Prevention 1st explain our focus on home safety and injury prevention, we get a puzzled look ...
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Bob Crandall, Matt Sauers and Ken Schultz knew for sure they'd had a good day when they were presented with ...
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“Safe at home.” It’s how we feel when we close the door behind us at the end of a long ...
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by Robert E. Cole, PhD, Robert E. Crandall and Carolyn E. Kourofsky Download a printable pdf of this article here. It's ...
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Halloween frights should be fun, not painful. Avoiding a scary visit to the hospital is simple, but requires some forethought ...
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