Important Ways To Protect Your Children From Harming Themselves In And Around Your Home

Throughout the worldwide coronavirus pandemic of 2020, where the vast majority of people across the entirety of the country were essentially confined to their homes, there was a significant, perhaps inevitable, rise in the number of accidents involving children that could have been avoided if the proper health and safety precautions were in place.

Here are some important ways to actively protect your children and prevent accidents that may cause harm in and around your home.

 

1. Be Prepared

 

As devastating and utterly heartbreaking as it is to have to be aware of what could happen should your young child have a serious accident at home, the best thing you can do is to prepare for this eventuality by familiarizing yourself with the Heimlich maneuver for children, CPR, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

 

2. Create and Update A Home First Aid Kit

 

A children’s first aid kit is significantly different from a standard one found in theatres, cinemas, shopping centres, and other public places, and it is imperative as a responsible parent or guardian that you ensure you not only have a first aid kit in place but that you regularly check and update it.

The standard, obligatory elements of a children’s first aid kit include, but are in no way limited to:

• Small and Medium Dressings

• Nitrile Powder Free Gloves

• Safety Pins

• Sick Bags

• Triangular Bandages

• Microporous Tape

• Eye Pad Dressings

• Waterproof Plasters

• Ice Packs

• Calpol

• Lollipop

• Swabs

• Eyewash

 

Having these items will ensure that you’ll be able to deal with most minor injuries and situations.

3. Cover Potential Hazards

 

On the surface, this may seem a particularly obvious point to make; however, there is often a plethora of hazards within a normal family home that is overlooked and causes a substantial number of accidents to children in British homes every year.

Antique fireplaces and bespoke fireplaces are a spectacular and stunning focal point of a living room, and reputable and professional suppliers such as stonewoods.co.uk also provide a safety fireguard as a part of their design and fitting service. It is strongly advisable to install stairgates throughout your home as well as covering every electrical outlet with a plastic plug cover and obviously always ensure dangerous chemicals and hot foods and drinks are as far away from the floor as possible.

 

4. Daily Practices To Ensure Your Child’s Safety

 

There is a multitude of ways to reduce the risk of injury to your children in the home, and such techniques can easily become part and parcel of your and their daily routine.

Some common things include ensuring you stack the dishwasher with knives and other pointed edged items facing downwards in the tray; avoid balloons entirely in favor of helium ones on a table or buy Mylar instead of ordinary latex and until your baby is at least a year old, and to never leave blankets and soft toys in the cot as such items are a choking hazard.