If you are finding Working From Home difficult with youngsters now in your working space, we have assembled some safety-related ideas for sharing your safety priorities with the youngsters in your home.
Parents, has your home become your kids' school?
Here is a fact sheet from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society detailing ways you can help your children while they are homeschooling.
Coloring Pages
We have found coloring pages for youngsters to use and learn about safety in the house. Click on the boxes below to access pages on different topics. Kids, make sure you ask your parents before you print anything!
Kids Home Safety FAQs
Washing your hands is important to kill germs! It also removes dirt from your hands after you have been playing and working.
To correctly wash your hands, you should get your hands wet with warm water, use soap, and rub your hands together (get the backs too!) for at least 20 seconds. Sing the "Happy Birthday" song twice or the ABC song, which gives you just the right amount of time. Or, come up with a special song just for you to sing along to to make this a fun and memorable experience just for you and your kids. Poke around the internet by googling "20 second handwash songs" to find what others are using!
After washing, rinse the soap off your hands, dry your hands with a paper towel, and turn the water off with the paper towel. There, your hands are clean!
Here's a coloring page to help you remember!
Electricity can be very helpful - it powers many of the objects we use every day. But if it is used incorrectly, it can also be very dangerous. There are a few easy things to remember so everyone can be safe around electricity:
- Never put fingers or other objects in an electrical outlet
- Never use anything that has a cord around water
- Never pull out a plug by its cord (always pull on the plug itself)
Here's a coloring page to help you remember!
Although you might think that the kitchen just has things for cooking and would be safe, you have to think about safety there too! The kitchen has things that are safe, like food; things that you should only use when you are with an adult, like cooking supplies; and things that you should only let an adult use, like cleaners.
Here's a coloring page to help you remember!