Professional Publications

Kidsafe WA provides a number of support services for Health Professionals and Community Group and over the past few years has produced a number of key resources for health professionals. Information about each of these resources can be found below.

To order either of these publications visit the Kidsafe Shop.

Home Safety Community Action Kit: A Guide for Health Professionals & Community Groups

The Home Safety Community Action Kit is designed as a reference resource to provide information about child safety in the home. Kidsafe WA developed the Home Safety Community Action Kit as a guide to assist Health Professionals to provide consistent child safety message to parents and carers of children less than 5 years of age. It also has information to assist community health staff with coordinating workshops, presentations and running community activities.

Kidsafe WA would like to acknowledge the Oceanic health region, Pilbara region, Pilbara Iron, the Department of Health and Child and Adolescent Community health who assisted to make this resource possible.

The Kit is in two sections; Part One focuses on Injury and Prevention highlighting background information on eight major types of child injuries which occur around the home; regional specific injury data; injury risks by stage of development; child injury prevention by location within the home and finally key child injury resources from Kidsafe WA and other organisations.

Part Two provides and assists presenters to deliver information about home safety prevention in Community & Parent Workshops. It includes a PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes and a workshop plan. A Frequently Asked Questions section is provided to assist presenters to answer questions that may be asked at workshops or as a general query.

Playspace Resource Kit

Initiated and developed by Kidsafe South Australia, the “Playspace Resource Kit” will be launched nationally on National Kidsafe Day, 10th October 2007.

Nearly 10% of all child injury hospitalisations are playground related. This equates to over 6,000 children being admitted to hospital each year from playground injury, with countless more children injured who do not require hospital admission. What’s more, these numbers appear to be rising.

The objective of the Playspace Resource Kit is to improve the standards of Australian playgrounds, by providing organisations with information on how to create safe play areas for children. Kidsafe believes that by doing this, there will be a reduction in the number of children sustaining injuries in playgrounds.

Aimed primarily at organisations such as: playgroups, day care and childcare centers; the resource kit contains 19 information sheets. These sheets cover areas such as the Australian Standards, recommended equipment and under-surfacing materials, equipment items and maintenance requirements.

The Playspace Resource Kit is designed as a user-friendly, practical tool where information and recommendations can be easily understood and followed.

The Playspace Resource kit is available nationally for $29.95.

Further Information

• If you require further information on either of the publications listed above please contact us.
• Alternatively Kits can be ordered by visiting the Kidsafe Shop.