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Button Battery Safety

If swallowed, button batteries can cause serious injury or death in as little as two hours.

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Food and Drink Scalds

Scalds from hot food or drinks are one of the most common burns requiring hospital care for children under age 5.

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Food-related Choking

More than half of choking incidents among children are caused by food. Learn how to keep your kids safer for meals, snacks, and every bite in between.

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Furniture Tip-Overs

Protect kids from toppling furniture and TVs with simple tools and anti-tip kits.

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Home Exercise Equipment Safety

By taking some simple safety steps, you can protect the whole family while still using your home exercise equipment.

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Laundry Detergent Packets

Highly-concentrated laundry detergent packets are more poisonous than traditional liquid or powder detergent.

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Medication Safety

Nine out of every 10 poisonings for children ages 12 and younger involve medication errors or unsupervised children taking medicine on their own.

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Playground Safety

Most playground injuries are caused by falls. Keep your child safer by choosing a playground with safe surfacing under and around equipment.

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Product Recalls

Millions of unsafe products are recalled every year. Go to SaferProducts.gov to learn about and report safety problems with items your family uses.

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Safe Sleep

Data from the CDC shows that more than 3,400 babies die each year, often from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sleep-related suffocation and strangulation.

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Stair Safety

Safety steps: when carrying a child up or down steps, protect your most important cargo by carrying the child only, leaving one hand free to hold on to the railing.

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Swimming Pool Safety

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4 years and the second leading cause of injury death in children ages 5 to 9 years.

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Toy Safety

Toy-related injuries send a child to a U.S. emergency department every three minutes.

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TV Tip-Overs

Every three weeks in the U.S., a child dies from a TV tip-over, and hundreds more are injured.

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Window Falls

Every day, about 9 kids younger than 5 years are treated in a U.S. emergency department for injuries from window falls.

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Youth Suicide Prevention

Make sure they know that you have their back, and resources like the 988 support line are there to help, too.