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Poison control centers receive 150 calls every hour for children getting into potential poisons. Learn how to reduce the risk of accidental poisonings.

Raising Safe Kids: One Stage at a Time (March, 2009)
Research Report

Raising Safe Kids: One Stage at a Time (March, 2009)

Understanding the risks by the developmental stage is important to help parents protect children from serious injury.

Report to the Nation: Trends in Unintentional Childhood Injury Mortality and Parental Views on Child Safety (April 2008)
Research Report

Report to the Nation: Trends in Unintentional Childhood Injury Mortality and Parental Views on Child Safety (April 2008)

Safe Kids Worldwide delves into the injuries, prevention strategies and facts surrounding childhood injury.

Poison Prevention Tips
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Poison Prevention Tips

Store all household products out of children’s reach and sight, and install child safety locks on cabinets where you have stored poisonous items.

When It Comes To Carbon Monoxide, Let's Act Now

December 6, 2012
Carbon monoxide poisoning

This week, 49 children and staff from Finch Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia were taken to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Tags: carbon monoxide, CO, generators, furnaces, gas stoves, CO detector, carbon monoxide poisoning, home safety, school safety
CPSC and Safe Kids warn of magnet risk

Joint Statement of CPSC and Safe Kids on Magnet Poisoning

CPSC and Safe Kids strongly urge parents and caregivers to keep magnets away from the reach of children and offer tips to avoid magnet ingestion.
Remember to store all medicines up, up and away

New Research Reveals Medications Are the Leading Cause of Accidental Poisoning Deaths Among Children Today

Safe Kids new research report found that while the death rate among children from poisoning has been cut in half, child-poisoning deaths have doubled.

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