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Safety around cars

Safeguarding children from potential accidents and providing families with the skills needed to minimise risk. 

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Safety around cars

Safeguarding children from potential accidents and providing families with the skills needed to minimise risk.  

Children in hot cars

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Child car seats and restraints fittings

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Safety in driveways and reversing cars

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Road rules and active transport

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Safety and injury prevention
  • Home safety
    • Poisons safety
    • Baby proofing the house
    • Balconies, windows and railing safety
    • Staying safe around pets
    • Choosing safe toys
    • Carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Burns and fire safety
    • Prevent fires in the home
    • Teaching your child
    • Burns and scalds
    • First aid
  • Water safety
    • Pool safety
    • Swimming and flotation aids (floaties)
    • Other outdoor sources of water
    • Bath time
    • Bath time for newborns
    • Summer safety
  • Hot weather and sun
    • Sun safety
    • Staying sun safe at the snow
    • Managing sunburn
    • Heat exhaustion and heatstroke
  • Outdoor safety
    • Playgrounds and equipment safety
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    • Farm and recreational vehicles
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  • Safety around cars
    • Children in hot cars
    • Child car seats and restraint fitting
    • Driveways and reversing cars
    • Motor vehicle accidents
    • Road rules and active transport
  • Medication safety
    • Prescription medication
    • Safe storage of medication
    • Administering medications
    • Medication poisoning
    • Serious allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) and EpiPens
    • Understanding diabetes
    • Monitoring blood glucose levels (BGLs)
    • Asthma medication usage
  • Protecting your child
    • Child protection and safe people in the community
    • Smacking a child
    • Online safety
    • Evaluating health information online
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Last updated Wednesday 18 February 2026

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network acknowledges that our facilities are built on the lands of the Bidjigal, Cammeraygal, Burramattagal, Cabrogal, Wangal, and Woddi Woddi. Our services extend across the lands now known as New South Wales. 

Aboriginal people believe these lands hold the ancestral spirits of those who have come and gone before them.

We acknowledge this is, was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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