WHSC : Good Practice and Resources
Home Safety Quiz
How Safe is Your Home? A fun way to make people think about how safe their home is. Aimed at older people and covering such things as smoke alarms and slips trips and falls. A free download available in PDF format in Welsh and English.
Home and Garden Checklist
A handy common sense guide to home safety in the form of a "Home and Garden Safety Checklist" of the hazards to be found in the home and garden. A free download available in PDF format in Welsh and English.
DTI Modernisation Report
A roundup of 74 projects from around the country funded by the DTI over three years. A handy overview of projects and schemes for home safety projects of all ages.
Buy Wise – Be Safe
A video produced by SWERCOTS Trading Standards in Southwest England, funded by the DTI, on advice about buying and using children’s equipment and safety devices and reducing hazards. This well produced video covers car seats, high chairs, cots, safety gates, pushchairs, smoke alarms and lots of safety hints. The video comes with a set of leaflets and a teaching pack is also available. For more information contact 01872 322037 or e-mail: swercots@cornwall.gov.uk
Safe!
Helping children stay safe on the farm. Every year children are unnecessarily killed and injured on farms in the UK. This video aims to help children to understand the dangers that exist on a farm and learn how to be safe. Produced by the HSE. Tel 01787 881165. Website: www.hsebooks.co.uk
A Good Practice Guide – Child Safety Equipment Schemes
As a result of the experiences of many groups and organisations struggling to set up and maintain successful schemes providing child home safety equipment, a need was identified for greater support and research into running a scheme. The guide does not aim to promote any one way of running a scheme, but to highlight all the potential advantages and disadvantages or different elements of the scheme. For copies contact Charlotte Orton at Leeds City Council on 0113 247 6291. The guide was put together with DTI funding.
Laser Good Practice Guidelines
There is now a dedicated website for all those involved with safety schemes at www.lasersafety.org.uk On the site you will find the latest newsletter and the guidelines.
Burning Issues
A contemporary play warning about the dangers of hoax calls, joyriding and arson is available as a video complete with teacher’s pack and notes. It is aimed at Key Stage 3 as part of Personal and Social Education. It has been developed by South Wales Fire and Rescue Service in partnership with Safer Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil College and Merthyr Tydfil Community Safety Partnership. A Welsh language version is also available. For more information contact: SWF&RS, Fire Safety Education, Adam Street, Cardiff. CF1 2FL. Tel: 01443 232500.
RoSPA website
Contains a wealth of home safety information and good practice and links in with other national safety sites, www.rospa.com
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