RESOURCES NEW INJURY PREVENTION The revised Safe as Houses Guidelines document is available to order at www.safekids.nz These ever-popular A5 leaflets have had a refresh. The images are up-to-date and the amount of copy reduced to their core facts and a call to action. Readers should be left in no doubt that Baby Walkers do more harm than good and just how important it is to handle hot drinks with caution. BABY WALKER AND BURNS LEAFLETS Children are vulnerable to different injury at different stages of their cognitive and physiological development. We decided to try explaining it in pictures with real children and the fresh approach is generating great feedback when used in our community workshops on creating a home safety zone. Here is a big shout out to the whānau who participated and in particular the tamariki who participated. NEW DEVELOPMENT STAGES VIDEO safekids news | September 2018 ISSUE No 80 3 With Parliament passed the Building (Pools) Amendment Act 2017 changes were required to our Safe as Houses Guidelines. The revision is complete and the booklet is back in print. If you’re not aware of it, this guidebook outlines ways that the risk of home injury to children can be reduced through good planning and design of new homes and with maintenance programmes for existing ones. On average, 195 children aged 0-9 years are admitted to hospital each month as a result of an unintentional injury sustained in the home. Children aged 0-4 years accounted for 69 per cent of these admissions. Between 2007-2011 239 children in the 0-14 age range died in a home environment from these unintentional injuries, with 0-4 years making up 88 per cent. The guidelines present strategies to minimise injury risk to these cohorts and make recommendations focussed on design or structural modifications. They must be read alongside the requirements of the Building Act and associated regulations. > CONTINUED ON PAGE 13