Every day in Australia, 5,000 children need medical attention, 170 are hospitalised and one dies from largely preventable accidents. People working in childcare need to be fully updated on ways of preventing such injuries.
An innovative child safety video titled ‘Child Safety Made Easy’, produced by Victoria’s Hume City Council, is an invaluable resource for childcare workers and families across Victoria. It highlights major causes of childhood injuries, and promotes simple steps to prevent these injuries, in an easily understood visual format.
Hume’s newly appointed Children’s Safety Promotion Officer, Lynne Galanti, is looking forward to showing the video as she liaises with childcare centres, preschools, day care providers, community groups and families.
“For childcare staff, it is an extension of the general training program,” she said. “It provides a great starting point for discussion of the sorts of situation which can lead to preventable injuries.
“It is also designed to be easy to understand for everyone, including people from non English speaking backgrounds. Families can readily recognise preventable hazards and do something about it before a tragedy occurs.”
Produced in close consultation with Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, and assisted by funding from the Department of Human Services, copies of the video are available for loan or sale.
For further information contact Lynne Galanti, telephone (03) 9205 2200.
