E106:03 20 June 2003
With Child Safety Week beginning on Monday, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is stressing the importance of protecting children in the workplace.
Child Safety Week (23 to 29 June) is an annual initiative, organised by the Child Accident Prevention Trust, which aims to increase the awareness and understanding of children's accidents and their prevention.
HSE has published a variety of guidance to help raise awareness of the dangers children face in the workplace, including the Stay Safe publications aimed at seven-to-eleven-year-olds, concentrating on preventing accidents in the agriculture, construction and railway industries.
Stay Safe On the Farm, Stay Safe Railway Safety, and Stay Safe Building Site Safety all contain, games, cartoons and puzzles to encourage children to think about the hazards which exist in all these industries, and how to avoid them.
These industries often act as a magnet to children who don't understand the dangers they present and treat them like playgrounds.
Thousands of copies of the Stay Safety booklets have been distributed at schools across the country, and can be ordered free of charge from HSE Books.
In addition HSE has also produced videos aimed at parents, teachers and older children to raise awareness.
A four minute video Open Farms Healthy Children, is available on HSE's website www.hse.gov.uk/campaigns/killfields/ecoli.htm which ensures parents, teachers and others are aware of the hidden risks of picking up E-coli from animals. The video Safe! - Helping children to stay safe on farms, which has been distributed to all Local Authority education departments, also shows children the hazards that exist on farms.
Copies of 'Safe! - Helping children to stay safe on
farms' price £20.00 + VAT, stock code
0 7176 2196 0 are also available for purchase from HSE Books.
1. For more information about the guidance referred to above see HSE press releases E136:01 HSE Launches Children's Railway Safety book; E137:02 'Stay Safe, Stay Away From Construction Sites' HSE Tells Children; E084:03 Kids Shown Video to Stay Safe on Farms; and E092:03 HSE Website Video Warns Of Risk Of E-COLI 0157 In Closer Encounter with Animals, all available on HSE's website www.hse.gov.uk
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