Kidsafe WA is working hard in the community to educate parents and children on staying safe at home, on the road and at play. To help continue this vital work, Kidsafe WA is raising funds through the sale of Entertainment Memberships. Every membership purchased directly supports our safety programs and helps us reach more families. How […]
Advocating for Safer Products — Wrap Up
On August 13, Kidsafe WA hosted the Fourth Childhood Injury Prevention Symposium in Burswood, focusing on safer products for children. Key speakers discussed product safety, vaping trends, child car restraints, eRideable laws, poison risks from button batteries, furniture hazards, and burn injury prevention. The event aimed to enhance advocacy and collaboration for child safety. […]
2025 Get Creative About Safety Winners!
In term 1, 2025, primary school students across Western Australia were invited to participate in the 2025 Get Creative About Safety Competition run by Kidsafe WA and ATCO. Students in years 1 to 3 who entered the colouring in competition were able to have fun being creative while also learning about important safety messages. Students in years […]
Kidsafe WA Child Injury Prevention Symposium: Advocating for Safer Products
Kidsafe WA will be hosting a one-day event on the 13th of August 2025, with funding from the Western Australian Department of Health. The Child Injury Prevention Symposium will discuss how best to advocate for policy change in the product safety sector, emerging and ongoing issues, and how we can work collaboratively. Injuries are the […]
Kidsafe WA in the Pilbara
In April, the Kidsafe WA team visited the Pilbara region to deliver child injury prevention workshops, incursions, and child car restraint services. Throughout the week, our team travelled from Karratha to Port Hedland, delivering 4 incursions to 92 primary school students and 5 workshops to 47 parents, carers and professionals. While delivering workshops, we connected […]
National Reconciliation Week 2025
As National Reconciliation Week draws to an end, the team at Kidsafe WA reflect on their commitments to reconciliation throughout the year. As an organisation working with WA communities to prevent childhood injury, our work is guided by our Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan. This plan helps us build stronger relationships with Aboriginal families and organisations […]
Kidsafe WA Upcoming Regional Travel
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 […]
Childhood Injury Reports and Bulletins
Kidsafe WA produces a range of bulletins and reports covering prevalent child injury topics based on injury surveillance data collected at the Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) Emergency Department. PCH is the only dedicated paediatric hospital in Western Australia and is the referral centre for paediatric illness and injury within the state. Approximately 20,000 children present […]
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 […]
