Social Media Guide – Parachute Safe Kids Week 2024
This guide is to help communities and partners use social media to support and promote Parachute Safe Kids Week 2024, an annual awareness campaign designed to bring attention to predictable and preventable injuries in children. This year our messaging will focus on consumer product safety. We encourage you to try and post every day during Safe […]
Carbon monoxide alarm legislation
Issue: Carbon monoxide poisoning Carbon monoxide is a leading cause of unintentional poisoning deaths in Canada and North America. Problem: Detection of carbon monoxide The nature of carbon monoxide poisoning requires proactive safety measures – waiting until after the poisoning has occurred is too late. Without a carbon monoxide alarm, families are unable to detect […]
Carbon monoxide
- How to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning at home.
- Installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide alarms.
Safe Kids Week
This annual campaign, held in 2024 from June 3 to 9, draws attention to a different child safety issue each year and provides resources for local community activities.
Site audit
Use this tool to collect information about the physical features of each road that borders the school. This information will help you decide what new features to add to the area to improve safety for children travelling to and from school. When to use this tool How to complete your site audit Example of an […]
Poison Prevention Week
This Canada-wide awareness week, held annually during the third week of March, draws attentions to common causes of inadvertent poisoning.
Safe sleep
Safety considerations for cribs, bunkbeds and sleepwear.
Carbon monoxide alarms
The Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs provides information on how to select, install and maintain your carbon monoxide alarms.
Injuries from carbon monoxide poisoning in Ontario (2017)
In this report, we examine Emergency Department (ED) visits for injuries related to carbon monoxide poisoning in Ontario between 2011-2015, as well as provide some in depth analysis for 2015, the latest year of data available when this report was prepared.
Carbon monoxide detector and smoke detector Canadian legislation chart
This chart outlines legislation for mandatory carbon monoxide detectors and mandatory smoke alarms by province/territory.