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Child Safety

Welcome to Safe Start.

New!  Now Available! Safe Start's new educational dvd, Give Your Child a Safe Start. Learn how to prevent injuries and keep children safe.  Please visit the Safe Start website for more details.

Did you know that more children die each year in Canada from preventable injuries than from all diseases combined?  This is why we at BC Children's Hospital are interested not only in treating injuries, but in preventing them.  Injuries don't just happen:  they are not "accidents".  Injuries are predictable and preventable.  In fact, up to 90% of all injuries can be prevented!

Safe Start, the injury prevention program of BC Children's Hospital developed this website to help you keep your child safe in and around your home.  Safe Start is proud to partner with preventable.ca to raise awareness about preventable injuries.

In British Columbia, 1200 people die every year because of injury and 400,000 are seriously injured!  Visit preventable.ca to learn more about preventable injuries, exchange ideas and engage with others.
By changing our attitudes, together we can prevent these injuries.