Playground Safety
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Fact Sheet, 2005
Every year in Saskatchewan, children between the ages of one and nine years are hospitalized due to playground injuries. This fact sheet outlines the steps parents can take to protect their children. Includes a checklist for ensuring their local playgrounds are safe and well-maintained.
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Home Safety Tips: Birth to 1 Year
Booklet, Revised 2022
All children depend on the adults around them to provide safe, healthy environments to learn, grow, and develop new skills. This booklet will support caregivers in preparing for each stage of child development, to better predict and prevent injuries to children from birth to 1 year of age.
Safety tips are included on the following topics: safe sleep, coping with crying, burns, scalds, drowning, falls, choking, and car seats.Also available: Home Safety Tips: 1 to 4 Years, and Home Safety Tips: 5 to 9 YearsSKU: 4-023Farm Safety
Fact Sheet, 2010
Every year, children are injured on Saskatchewan farms. This information sheet was developed to assist families in making the farm a safe place for children and outlines ways to help prevent injuries.
SKU: 4-600Protect Your Baby’s Head Shape: Preventing Flat Spots on Your Baby’s Head
Brochure, Revised 2023
This brochure provides parents and caregivers with information on positional plagiocephaly, or “flat head”. Information includes how to prevent flat spots and what to do if a flat spot is found on baby’s head.
SKU: 4-101Million Messages: Preschool
Information Card, 2012
The Million Messages program is the development of a comprehensive plan to standardize messages given to parents about injury by public or community health nurses. Each of these messages is simple, consistent, routine, and targets an issue that affects children at specific stages in their growth and development. The messages are developed for visits during the prenatal, newborn, two months, four months, six months, twelve months, eighteen months, and preschool periods. This program was developed by Capital Health in Alberta.
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