RoSPA Press Office : Press Releases : Safety Education

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is targeting schools in an effort to reduce around 45,000 accidents each year involving poisons and chemicals around the home. The aim is also to give children the knowledge to keep them safe when they start work, where millions of people are exposed to risk from dangerous substances. Full Story»

Trainee teachers are to be given lessons in risk education following a series of widely publicised accidents involving children, particularly on school trips. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the Health and Safety Executive are teaming up with the University of Central England to produce a pilot scheme to incorporate risk management in Initial Teacher Training (ITT) programmes. Full Story»

Midlands pupils have had a hand in an award-winning safety project which could save children’s lives throughout the country. The lessons learned by youngsters from Woodgate Junior and Infant School, Birmingham, are featured on a website to provide a formula for others to follow. Full Story»

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has appointed Jean McEntire as head of its safety education department. Jean, a former OFSTED inspector and schools adviser for Shropshire County Council, supported schools on national curriculum issues. She specialised in health education, citizenship and stress management. Full Story»

Childminders are being urged to turn their homes into safety action zones so that they can teach children how to avoid accidents. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has published a free booklet for childminders which explains how to pass on safety messages to the youngsters in their care. Full Story»

The first guide to encourage childminders to help children in their care learn about safety has been published by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. The Society has launched its free booklet on the eve of National Childminder’s Week (June 14-18), in an effort to raise awareness of the positive contribution childminders can make to children’s safety education. Full Story»

Safety education schemes for children are to be the focus of a new project by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Typically, such schemes operate by setting up general home scenes, for example, a kitchen or garden, and asking the children to spot the hazards and think of ways of making the environment safer. Full Story»

Tufty the road safety RoSPA squirrel, who was a favourite for millions of children in the sixties and seventies, is to be immortalised in a limited edition range of ceramic figures. Full Story»

Two new children’s resources featuring activities and stories to teach safety awareness have been launched by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Safe Start and Small Beginnings, both sponsored by Domestos, are aimed at pre-school and infant children. Full Story»

School children in South Staffordshire are set to learn all about hazards in the home and how to prevent accidents, through a new computer software package from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Two-thirds of the schools in the area will be receiving the Find It, Fix It, computer program for their children, after South Staffordshire Council agreed to buy the package, which encourages children to assess risks in the home. Full Story»

Teenagers are more concerned about getting told off than the possibility of having an accident, according to the latest research commissioned by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Over 300 teenagers at two Wiltshire schools were asked to draw and write about someone their own age doing something risky. The most common example given was misbehaviour, including defying a parent, being rude to a teacher, and shoplifting. Full Story»