Summer holidays can be a fun-filled period of the year with many families planning long car trips and lots of activities to entertain the kids. During this time, it’s important parents provide active-adult supervision and keep distractions to a minimum to reduce and prevent injuries from occurring. Each year in Western Australia 35,000 children will […]
The Perth Children’s Hospital Trauma Unit sees many children attending each year with serious injuries. Children who are classified to have severe injuries are admitted directly to the Trauma Unit and bypass the Emergency Department. The data set is from January 2021 – June 2021, where 52 children were directly admitted to the PCH […]
Kidsafe WA, in conjunction with the WA Consumer Product Advocacy Network, published a research report examining child car restraint misuse and injury presentations to Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) because of motor vehicle accidents. The Child Car Restraint Misuse and Motor Vehicle Accident Injury Research Report identifies the most common child car restraint installation errors based […]
Kidsafe WA has recently released the Childhood Injury Bulletin: Small-Wheeled Devices. An average of 547 children present to the Perth Children’s Hospital Emergency Department for a small-wheeled device-related injury each year. This accounts for 3 percent of all injury presentations during the five year period. Small-wheeled devices are popular methods of recreation and non-motorised transportation […]
Playgrounds provide important opportunities for children’s physical and cognitive development, encourage social and interactive play, and contribute to reducing the risk of obesity and other health conditions related to physical inactivity. While playgrounds provide safer environments for children when compared to other outdoor areas, they are still associated with a risk of injury. Kidsafe WA […]
Our latest campaign, Nothing is Everything, highlights the world we’re trying to create – a world where nothing bad happens to kids. We believe when nothing happens, there’s everything to celebrate. Because when nothing happens, children aren’t admitted to the hospital due to serious injury. When nothing happens, children don’t have to live with the […]
Kidsafe WA are very excited to be running a Keeping Kids Safe on Farms webinar on Thursday the 24th of June from 10am – 11am AWST via Zoom. The webinar is appropriate for parents and carers of children that live on or near farms. The aim of the webinar is to provide you with information […]
On Tuesday the 18th of May 2021, Kidsafe WA held the inaugural Child Injury Prevention Symposium at the University Club of UWA. Over 60 people attended the event to hear presentations on The changes, challenges, and accomplishments in child injury prevention over the past 40 years. As a collective group, Western Australia has achieved significant gains […]
Despite high levels of child car restraint use in Australia and one of the most stringent child car restraint design standards in the world, approximately 40-70 children are killed on Australian roads each year, while thousands more are injured. Anecdotal evidence suggests that over 70% of child car restraints are incorrectly fitted or used. This […]
Kidsafe WA acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live, work and play. While our office is located on Whadjuk Noongar Country, we extend our respects to First Nations Elders and their people across Western Australia where our vision, purpose and values extend.
