Every year, the Kidsafe WA team travel to regional communities to deliver child injury prevention programs and services to keep country kids safe at home, on the road and at play. During each visit, Kidsafe WA staff delivers free primary school incursions, professional development workshops, and parent workshops to community organisations. This is an excellent […]
Hot Cars Week 2025
Did you know that on a typical Australian summer day, the temperature inside a parked car can be as much as 20° to 30° higher than the outside temperature? Leaving children unattended in the car, even briefly, can be fatal. Each year, approximately 5,000 Australian children are rescued from parked cars. Three-quarters of those children […]
New Workshop – Keep Kids Safe on Our Roads
Great news! Kidsafe WA’s Keeping Kids Safe on Our Roads Workshop is ready to deliver to our community. The development and delivery of this workshop have been made possible through our partnership with the Road Safety Commission Community Initiative Project Grant. The free workshop educates parents, carers, and people working with children on best road […]
Kidsafe WA in the Kimberley
The Kidsafe WA team recently travelled to the Kimberley to deliver our child injury prevention workshops and incursions. Starting in Broome, our team joined in with Fair Game for their after-school hours activities at the Broome PCYC – with a special visit from Gilbert the Lizard, Horizon Power’s electrical safety mascot. During the week, we […]
Clearing the Air: A focus on vaping webinar
Kidsafe WA and Cancer Council WA discuss vapes, the health impacts of vaping, and strategies to support teens. Suitable for teachers, carers and parents of pre-teens and teens. Supported by Check out our previous webinars here. […]
WA CPAN Research Report
The WA Consumer Product Advocacy Network collaboratively develops a research report on a product safety concern each year. This year, the WA CPAN group focussed on Product-related burn injuries using the Perth Children’s Hospital Emergency Department data from July 2018 to June 2023. Burn injuries are a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality rates […]
Have you Checked your Child Car Restraint?
With the support of Lotterwest, Kidsafe WA created a series of short videos of common installation errors. At Kidsafe WA, we provide child car restraint checking services at multiple locations across Perth. Between 2016 and 2020, over 44 per cent of these checking appointments on child car restraints identified at least one installation error, with […]
Promoting Home Safety with ATCO
Kidsafe WA’s ongoing partnership with ATCO has helped to spread home safety messages to communities across Western Australia. Kidsafe WA and ATCO recently visited Busselton to deliver incursions to primary school students to teach them about natural gas and burns safety. Sessions were delivered to year five and six students at Busselton Primary School and […]
Concussions in Childhood Sport
The impacts a concussion can have on children has been a prominent topic spoken across the sporting community. Whilst there may be some reserve to allowing children to participate in sport due to the concern of injury, participating in sporting activities have many developmental benefits. It also helps children build social skills with their peers […]
