Health and Safety in General Reviews

Any one with a baby knows how expensive the baby wipes can get. It is possible to make your own which can be better than some of the wipes on the market. It also saves a bit of money. I am an American so I do not know what type of product brands you have in your area. I also converted measures as closely as I could for the metric system. ...

The sun seems to be shining longer and brighter so we take our children to the garden to play but please remember to take care to ensure all is safe and well. A child's vivid imagination can turn any object into a toy or game whatever their surroundings. But with ponds, pesticides, prickly bushes and pests, it?s important your garden ...

Travel systems (where an infant carrier car seat can be attached to the chassis of a pram or pushchair) have become increasingly popular in recent years; however, there are a number of points to consider when choosing this type of pushchair. Most travel systems consist of a pushchair that can take an infant carrier first stage car seat. ...

I want to know what is the point of Baby On Board stickers? While there is no doubt there are people who use their baby buggies as battering rams and annoy us all, there is a good reason for the Baby On Board signs in cars. They are to alert emergency services to the chance of a baby being missed when searching for casulties in road ...

Never underestimate your child. No matter how sensible they are, or appear to be. This is a lesson that I myself have learned to day as a result of a very frightening experience. Let me relate it to you. My eldest is usually very sensible. Although he is only eleven he is capable of quite a lot. He is a very intelligent child, (and ...

As part of my employment as a Cycling Instructor for one of the London Boroughs, we are also called upon to facilitate at the Junior Citizen programme in the same area. This is not necessarily because it has any relevance to getting on your bike, but more to do with the fact that we are a body of people also working for the Safety Education ...

Last week, the 33-year-old British actress, Charlotte Coleman died of an asthma attack. Her body was found downstairs, her inhaler was upstairs. How many school kids have asthma? It’s estimated to be between 10% and 20%. If one of them has an asthma attack at school, do the teachers or other school staff know what to do? Are the ...

As a bereavement Counsellor with some years of experience in dealing with Children I thought I would update some old Opinions and came accross this old Opinion of mine published elsewhere. I decided to update it and publish it here, which in turn will give you an idea of how a child of varying age groups may be expected to deal with the ...

I am writing in frustration over an incident that happened to me while at work. I am a Postman on a walking duty and have been for four years now. Two weeks ago while on my run I was delivering on a typical Scottish morning, it was chucking it down,and was delivering to a tenement in a very seedy area where the people in the ...

LET ME TELL YOU A STORY... One day I decided to paint my lounge. As usual my partner just wanted to watch TV so I did it myself. Unfortunately, I stepped down off my stepladder and trod on my hammer (which I used to crank open the paint can). Let's just say it hurt and it bled - loads! I grabbed a tea towel and pushed it onto my foot. I ...

As adults, we have all watched the replays of the footage of the September 11th incidents, feeling the horror, the sickness in the pit of our stomachs, and trying to come to terms with what happened that day. We have poured out our thoughts to our friends, some of us have written articles and poetry about our feelings, yet still we find our fears ...

I like to think I am safety conscious especially where my kids are concerned but often I am made to feel overprotective. My 5 year old is not allowed across the (busy) road alone but my neighbour's 3 year old is. This is difficult to explain to my son who just thinks I am being mean. We have recently had speed humps put in the road ...

Sexual Abuse is one of the worst types of violation aganist another person, which sadly is usually a child. Not only is it rape of the body but its also rape of the mind. When a child has been subjected to this crime, it changes their whole lives, even once the abuser has been discovered and punnished, the child is still left with scars. ...

What exactly is child abuse? Child abuse is when someone hurts a child on purpose. It is also child abuse when a parent or caregiver doesn't protect the children in their care. When parents don't know how to handle their feelings or problems, they can become frustrated, angry or depressed. Parents sometimes take these feelings out on their ...

I turned 40 this past April. I received the obligatory Depends from my younger sister as a birthday present, as well as the "over the hill" cards and balloons from others. Wisely, my husband (at that time my fiancé) avoided all such garbage and treated me like a queen. Imagine my surprise and pleasure when I received a card ...

I have noticed more and more that parents are not strapping their children into buggys and after my experience with my daughter falling out i always do. When my daughter was about 14 months old we put her into the buggy to go for i nice long stroll down the coast. As we walked up the road to get into the car the buggy hit a hole and ...

I know I’m setting myself up to be shot down in flames here, talking about child safety when I have no children, but I do have a goddaughter, Rosie, who is just 7 years old and her safety in all things is paramount to me. So, I sat and thought about all the things from which I would want to help protect her, and also all the stupid ...

When I was pregnant with my daughter, I already had a baby. He was called Jake, and he was a 5 year old Staffordshire Bull Terrier. I worried for the whole time whether or not he would accept our new addition, because he had been so used to having our sole attention for so long, and was a flighty dog to say the least. We decided to leave the ...

Recently a friend of my cousin died from skin cancer. She was a beautiful 25-year-old university graduate looking forward to a holiday with her long time boyfriend in the Seychelles. Life couldn’t be better. Admittingly, she was a self-confessed sunbed queen but as she explained, she felt more attractive and confident because of it. She had ...

Okay well i discovered this while writing an opinion on some sugar free teething powders. As most of us are aware sugar free simply means "we have replaced it with a naturally occuring sugar". One of the ingredients was Xylitol, I looked it up on the net to see what it was in order to give the most information i could, I was ...