June 2020: National Safety Month
/June is National Safety Month! This is a great time for everyone to come together to raise awareness about injuries that happen in our homes and communities. We can all help parents and caregivers to take steps to identify and address injury hazards. Celebrate National Safety Month by sharing the following resources with your family, friends, and peers.
Safety in the Home
AnchorIt! Secure Furniture and TVs – U.S. CPSC
Fall Safety for Kids: How to Prevent Falls – Mayo Clinic
Fire Safety – Safe Kids Worldwide
Poison Prevention & Treatment Tips – HealthyChildren.org
PoolSafely.gov – U.S. CPSC
You can find additional child injury prevention resources in our Why Injury Prevention Matters toolkit.
COVID-19 Quick Tip
With public fireworks displays being cancelled across the country, families might be considering purchasing fireworks for a backyard show. Fireworks are more dangerous than many people think, and there is no safe way for you or your family to use fireworks. Approximately one-fourth of backyard fireworks injuries to children occur to those who are bystanders, so simply watching someone else use fireworks can put a child at risk. Families should carefully consider the risks of backyard fireworks, including sparklers, before using them.
Take Action
Every month, we are promoting a new action that each family can take to keep their children safer while social distancing. This month, we want every family to say no to backyard fireworks. Follow along every month for a new action, and share with us how you're preventing child injury in your home!
Contest
Only one month left to show us how you’ve been preventing child injury at home!
Document how you use our toolkits or participate in outreach weeks (our most recent outreach week was swimming pool safety!) with pictures, videos, or screenshots. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
Best Use of a Prevent Child Injury Toolkit
Best Use of Prevent Child Injury Social Media Graphics
Most Creative Use of a Prevent Child Injury Toolkit
You don't have to submit to a specific category -- we will evaluate it to see which category it fits into best.
We will accept multiple submissions from the same individual/organization if it is not a copy of a previous submission. Share the contest guidelines with your friends, family, and colleagues!
Our contest is open until June 26th, 2020. Read more about the contest here. Please send submissions to contests@preventchildinjury.org.
Coming Up
On Our Calendar
June 1 - 7: National Safety Month
June 8 - 14: Safety In and Around Cars
June 15 - 21: Backyard Safety
June 22 - 28: ATV Safety
June 29 - July 5: Fireworks Safety Month
Events
Join Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on June 2nd at 2PM EST for the webinar “Health & Safety Considerations for Reopening K-12 Schools.” Educators, administrators, and public health experts will share their perspectives on physical distancing, school health services, surveillance and testing, and more. To join via web browser for this event on June 2nd at 2PM EST, click here. If you are unable to join live, you can visit the PolicyLab website on June 3rd to access the archived video.
Lifesavers (The National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities) has chosen several select sessions that are available as free webinars. This is a great opportunity for child safety advocates, law enforcement, first responders, public health professionals, students, and researchers to learn from transportation and road safety experts. Review the list of available webinars and register for sessions here. The webinar will kick off June 3rd at 3PM EST.
The Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) is hosting a webinar on June 9th from 12 - 1PM EST titled “Why should you tweet? Effective Twitter Usage for Injury & Violence Scholars.” Participants will learn how to grow their professional social media presence and hear from injury and violence professionals about how to use Twitter professionally. Register for the webinar here.