Health & Safety

  • Food Safety Tips for Bagged and Boxed Lunches

    Food Safety Tips for Bagged and Boxed Lunches

    You need to be careful when you make and store lunches for school or work. Follow these tips to keep your food safe. Keep it clean...

  • Home Alone Safety Checklist

    Home Alone Safety Checklist

    Telephone List important numbers beside each telephone and/or program them in. Equip your phone with an answering device or service so it can take messages. Buy a phone with caller I.D. Tell...

  • Household child safety check-list

    Household child safety check-list

    Born to Love offers these tips on making your home safer for your little one(s). Print it off and take a walk through your house. Living Room: [ ] Unused Electric Outlets: Shield them from baby's...

  • How do you score on kids' safety? Mark yourself with the Safe Kids Canada Report

    How do you score on kids' safety? Mark yourself with the Safe Kids Canada Report

    Despite a drop in injury rates over the past 10 years, unintentional injury, such as car crashes, drowning, or threats to breathing, remains by...

  • Key to water safety is 'within arm's reach'

    Key to water safety is 'within arm's reach'

    Summer in Canada is synonymous with water play and unfortunately that can spell disaster. Almost 500 Canadians die every year in water-related...

  • Bicycle Safety - Helmets

    Bicycle Safety - Helmets

    Over 90 per cent of children age six to 16 ride bicycles. Children start cycling as play when they are very young. As they grow older and become more experienced, the transition from toy to transportation is...

  • Pedestrian Safety

    Pedestrian Safety

    Did You Know? Approximately 115 children die each year due to pedestrian injuries. Close to 1,800 Canadian children and youths are hospitalized each year due to pedestrian injuries. 5-9 year olds...

  • Pedestrian Safety - Why Kids Lack Good Judgement

    Pedestrian Safety - Why Kids Lack Good Judgement

    Children under the age of nine - generally speaking - don't have the ability to make safe judgments about traffic because they aren't...

  • Backyard Pool Safety

    Backyard Pool Safety

    On May 17, a pool owner's nightmare came true. My sons Max and Alex, and their friend Gaby were getting ready for a dip in our pool. Five-year-old Gabriel, who just moved across the street asked if he too could...

  • Safety - Preventing Hot Water Scalds

    Safety - Preventing Hot Water Scalds

    There are many dangers inside the home.. one you may not have thought of, is the hot water that comes from your taps. In fact there are thousands of scalding injuries each year in Canada and hundreds of people...

  • Safety Tips for the Holidays

    Safety Tips for the Holidays

    The Christmas Tree Get a tree that is freshly cut. It will stay green longer and be less of a fire hazard. Always test for freshness before buying. A tree with high moisture content is safer. Very few...

  • School Bus Safety

    School Bus Safety

    The bus is a very safe way for your child to travel to and from school. In fact, school buses are the safest vehicles on the road! Very few deaths and injuries to children involve a school bus. Most...

  • School Days: Safety First

    School Days: Safety First

    The relatively “easy living” of summertime is quickly drawing to a close. Particularly for parents and their school-age children, there is the heightened buzz of “back to school” talks ...

  • Sun Safety & Kids

    Sun Safety & Kids

    Warm, sunny days are wonderful. The sun feels so good on your skin. But what feels good can be very bad for you, your family, and especially your baby. Before you take your baby to the park, beach, or even...

  • Building Healthy Kids: One Lunch at a Time

    Building Healthy Kids: One Lunch at a Time

    There’s nothing like back to school time for fresh starts. Why not take advantage of the new school year to encourage healthy eating habits...




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