Daily Child Safety Week tips to help you keep your children safe: Wednesday – Burns

This week, running from 21 – 27 June, is Child Safety Week. The campaign comes from the Child Accident Prevention Trust who are aiming to raise awareness of the number of accidents that seriously injure or kill children and how parents can take measures to avoid them happening. 

Wednesday – burns
Every day this week 6 children will be so badly burned from things like hot drinks, hot bath water, hair straighteners and other hot appliances that they will be admitted into hospital.  Make sure your child isn’t one of them.

Put your hair straighteners away out of reach after you finish using them – they stay hot for up to 8 minutes.

A hot drink can burn a young child even 15 minutes after it’s been made. So keep hot drinks out of children’s reach – put your baby down before you pick up yours and don’t pass hot drinks over children’s heads.

A toddler’s skin can be burnt really badly by hot bath water in just 5 seconds. So, when you’re running the bath, put the cold in first and top up with hot, then test the water with your elbow.  And don’t leave young children alone in the bath in case they play with the hot tap.

Join parents throughout the country and pledge your time with the Child Safety Week Time Pledge and find out how to protect your child from serious accidents.

http://www.childsafetyweek.org.uk/child-safety-week/