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Mealtimes should be a happy time for families to get together, enjoy their food and catch up with each other’s news. Make sure you follow simple safety rules like never passing hot drinks over a child’s head, watching chip pans at all times – and keeping all those ‘tempting’ things that may poison or choke children well out of harm’s way. ✔ contact your local fire and rescue service and ask them to demonstrate what happens when hot fat catches fire. Hold a quiz on fire safety and offer a deep fat fryer as a prize ✔ get parents talking by showing CAPT’s Fancy a cuppa? video about preventing scalds from hot drinks ✔ create a roleplay with older children around preparing and serving meals and hot drinks. Get them to identify safety issues as they go along ✔ create a ‘devil’s sweetshop’ by sticking a mixture of colourful sweets and tablets to a board with numbers underneath – then get parents to distinguish the sweets from the tablets • over half of all accidental house fires happen because of cooking – that’s 27,000 fires in a year • chip pans and hot fat pans are the most common cause of house fires in which children are injured • every year more than 6,500 children are rushed to A&E departments because of scalds from kettles and hot drinks • hot drinks can scald young children 15 minutes after they have been made • if your gas cooker or central heating boiler is faulty and your kitchen isn’t properly ventilated, carbon monoxide can build up over time • low levels of poisonous carbon monoxide gas can cause headaches, sleepiness and concentration problems, resulting in long-term damage to a child’s developing brain • babies and young toddlers have not learnt how to time their breathing with chewing and swallowing food or drink, so are at greatest risk of choking • if you take tablets at mealtimes be careful that children don’t copy you. 20 children are admitted to hospital each day due to suspected poisoning, with common drugs like pain-killers responsible for a quarter of all accidents • child-resistant caps are useful but they are not child-proof 10 Photocopying is permitted for non-commercial use provided that each sheet is reproduced precisely and retains all logos
other useful resources capt resources • for a catalogue of free resources available through your community fire safety officer, call 0870 1226 236 and quote reference T/INF 1019 • download the cooking safety checklist from the Fire Kills website www.firekills.gov.uk/ cooking/01.htm and encourage parents to check how safe their kitchens are • for information on carbon monoxide visit www.hse.gov.uk/gas/ domestic/index.htm or www.co-gassafety.co.uk ‘I didn’t know that a baby’s skin is 15 times thinner Mother who took part in Child Safety Week 2005 How safe is your child from burns and scalds? leaflet Code: LEA012, £9.95 per 100 Fancy a cuppa? video resource pack for practitioners to use with parents and carers, Code: VID001 (standard video) £45.83, Code: VID002 (loop video) £69.33 Fancy a cuppa? flyer Code: FLY001, £7.95 per 100 Hot drinks can hurt me colour poster Code: POS011, £1.95 each or five for £8.95 What might poison your child? leaflet Code: LEA011 £9.95 per 100 Safe in their hands? leaflet with home safety advice for relatives and friends who look after children on a regular basis, Code: LEA003, £9.95 per 100 Free fact sheets on burns and scalds, choking, poisoning To obtain free CAPT fact sheets and quizzes visit www.capt.org.uk or see page 19 than an adult’s or how long a hot drink takes to cool – so I have learnt’ • staying in the kitchen while you are frying chips or other food because hot oil catches fire really quickly • never filling your pan more than one third full of oil – or, better still, replacing your chip pan with a deep fat fryer or using oven chips – it’s much safer! • turning saucepan handles towards the back of the cooker and using back rings where possible • using a kettle with a short or curly flex and keeping it back from the edge of the work top • never passing hot drinks over children’s heads and never holding a young child and a hot drink at the same time • making sure your baby or toddler is strapped into their high chair with a five point harness, so they can’t fall out • never leaving a baby alone with a bottle and never putting food in a baby’s bottle • always supervising young children at mealtimes and never giving peanuts to children under six • keeping medicines out of children’s sight and reach, so children don’t mistake them for sweets or drinks • fitting a carbon monoxide alarm with the BSI Kitemark in a kitchen with a gas cooker Photocopying is permitted for non-commercial use provided that each sheet is reproduced precisely and retains all logos 11
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