We invite whānau to visit ‘our whare’, to touch, experience, have a conversation and take away important lessons on what they can do to prevent children from being seriously injured in their own homes.”

The 2019 venues will be announced soon. 

To enquire about booking the Safety Whare at your community event, email Charis at CharisM@adhb.govt.nz

Infographic 

• Over 60% of all under-5 injuries happen in the home.

Guidebook 

• Safe as houses : recommendations for childsafe rental properties In New Zealand.

Learn more

• Search our Information Service and Links pages.
• Housing New Zealand's Driveway Safety Programme (includes "A guide to driveway safety for property owners")

The Safekids Aotearoa Home Safety Toolkit is a flipchart designed to be kept and re-used by health professionals who visit families with young children to promote child injury prevention in the home. 

The flipchart covers several topics, presented by age, area and injury issue. Order this resource here.

Download our checklist for a comprehensive list of safety tips and reminders:

• Living Areas
• Bedrooms
• Kitchen and Laundry
• Bathroom
• Outdoors. 

Download it here. This checklist is available in other languages.

We also have safety messages and information on other home-related topics:

• Burns
• Button Battery
• Cutting & Piercing
• Driveway Run Over
• Farm Safety
• Poisoning
• Safe Sleep
• Water Safety