Kidsafe WA is partnering with ANZBA for the annual National Burns Awareness Month this June! National Burns Awareness Month is an initiative by Kidsafe Australia, Australia’s leading independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting safety and preventing childhood injuries and accidents. June is recognised as burns awareness month, as each year, we continuously see a spike […]
Kidsafe WA’s Safety Island is Live!
Kidsafe WA’s latest child injury prevention resource is now live. Safety Island is an interactive e-learning tool designed for primary school students to learn about preventing injuries. By providing students with simple and practical steps, students can learn how to keep themselves and others around them safe. […]
A Parent’s Guide to Backyard Play
Kidsafe WA, with the support of the Department of Health WA, is excited to launch its latest resource, A Parent’s Guide to Backyard Play. This guide provides parents and carers with information on common injuries that can happen to children in the backyard and how to create backyard play environments that are safe and fun […]
Bicycle Safety
On average, over 450 children present to the Perth Children’s Hospital Emergency Department with bicycle injuries each year. For more information about bicycle safety, check out our Bicycle Safety Fact Sheet. […]
Connectivity
Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury Australia (Connectivity), a national, independent, not-for-profit with a sole focus on traumatic brain injury (TBI), works to improve the outcomes of people who suffer from a TBI, including sports-related concussions. Connectivity recently released its Sport-Related Concussion Short Course – a course that is not only free to complete but also provides […]
Kidsafe WA Goes Regional
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 deliver free primary school incursions, professional development workshops and parent workshops at community organisations. This is a great […]
Australian Concussion Guidelines Updated
An amazing achievement from the Australian Institute of Sport has seen recent changes to the Australian Concussion guidelines for youth and community sports. The changes to these guidelines have been established with advice from the United Kingdom’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation. The key updates to these changes […]
Coming Soon: Kidsafe WA’s Interactive e-Learning Tool for Primary Schools
Kidsafe WA is excited to announce the upcoming launch of Safety Island – a new and improved interactive e-learning tool designed for primary school students to learn about preventing injuries in a fun and engaging way. Schools are an ideal location to promote awareness of childhood injury prevention methods to ensure West Australian children become […]
Kidsafe WA is Hiring!
Kidsafe WA is seeking an experienced Research Manager to coordinate effective strategies for research and evaluation. For full details of the position and application process, please visit the Position Description link below: […]
