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General
Queensland Health has a list of Keeping Children Safe - injury prevention strategies. Which also includes child injury prevention information for babies up to a year old in:
Similar documents also exist for newborn babies and babies up to six months old.
The Australian Government health portal, HealthInsite has a section for child safety topics. HealthInsite also has a general injury prevention section.
Kidsafe Queensland
is a community-based child safety information, personal and printed advice and support service which also has a demonstration house in Herston, Brisbane offering a range of safety devices for sale.
Kidsafe Victoria
have a range of Fact Sheets in English, Serbian, Arabic, Somali, Chinese, Turkish, Croatian, Vietnamese and Macedonian. These Fact Sheets are in four parts – babies from birth to 9 months, toddlers from 9 to 18 months, infants from 18 months to 3.5 years and young children from 3.5 to 5 years old.
The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Safety Centre
also has a range of downloadable brochures on a number of child injury prevention topics.
Injury data from a cross section of Queensland Emergency Departments is collected by the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit who produce regular and detailed Bulletins.
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander child injury prevention is important because this community has higher rates for all types of childhood injury than the national averages. A useful booklet - Safety for Piccaninny - Our Little Ones has been produced by the Department of Emergency Services, they have also published a child injury prevention booklet called Keeping Children Safe.
The Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian is legislated to maintain a register of all child deaths in Queensland and reports on these annually to Parliament.
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Pushbike safety
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