Highlighting the need to keep children safe from poisonous substances, Directgov says that every year around 26,000 children under five are taken to hospital with suspected poisoning. Kitchen equipment, cooking and food and drink meanwhile, are responsible for more than half of burns and scalds. Every year over 390,000 children under the age of 15 are taken to hospital with injuries resulting from a fall at home or in the garden. As an industry, we have a responsibility to provide products and advice that help guard against such accidents happening in the first place.

A child's home can be a dangerous place. Unfortunately, as they are there most of the time, it can be a place where accidents happen. There are plenty of things parents can do to make their home safer, but it's essential they have a well stocked first-aid kit to hand.

LCR Hallcrest's successfully launched range of child safety temperature monitors now incorporate the classic Mr Men® characters bringing fun, colour and safety into the home. Seven useful safety products are included in a handy gift pod: Mr Men® Fever Thermometer, Bedroom Thermometer, Mr Tickle® Bath Thermometer, ‘Too Hot' Safety Labels, a Colour Change Baby Feeding Spoon, a Mr Men® Anti-Scald Gauge and Mr Men® Fridge Thermometer.

Safety is paramount when it comes to children and Tippitoes has an award winning collection of products engineered to keep little ones safe around the home.

Awarded Silver in the Safety Category for the Practical Parenting Awards 2009, the Tippitoes Swing Shut Safety Gate is easy to install, sturdy and secure.

At Splash n Bump we're over the moon since winning the BACRA Award for Best Bathtime Product 2009 during our brand launch at the Baby and Child Show.

The Splash n Bump Bath Bumper Set offers an exciting combination of fun and education but above all provides a safer bathtime environment for your little one.

How often have you seen a child with runny nose?!? Dr Bee is putting an end to that. Parents, as well as parents-to-be, who visited The Baby Show in Earls Court last month, showed lots of enthusiasm and interest in our nasal aspirator. Despite of approximately 80% of our sales going to parents of babies and toddlers, we had lots of great discussions with parents-tobe and provided them with information about our product, to buy when their precious baby arrives.

The key to their success? Lindam understand the importance a parent places on finding a brand that they can trust and rely on. The Lindam product range has been designed and developed to help parents and children make the evolution from newborn to baby to toddler as easy and safely as possible.

Every parent is concerned about safety in the home and it is vital that you respond to this anxiety with good advice and helpful products. The NHS reports that a large number of children between 0-5 years old are injured every year, some seriously, in accidents in the home. It reveals the kitchen and stairs to be where the majority of serious accidents happen, with a total of 43,000 occurring in the kitchen, and 58,000 on the stairs.

Winner of Mother & Baby's Best Design Award, and Practical Parenting's Best Buy Award, the KiddyGuard^TM really is a stairgate like no other. Highly innovative, it works on the same principle as a roller blind, simply "disappearing" when not in use, so there's no hazardous horizontal bar to trip over and no unsightly, swinging gate to bang against.

The latest nursery bath time essential has arrived! Digi-Duck is both a bath time toy and thermometer rolled into one.

The home is where safety begins, and there can be many hidden hazards in almost every room! From steep stairs to hot ovens, and from dangling cords to plug sockets, enquiring minds and adventurous fingers can meet danger.

The fantastic Dream Tubes from Dusky Moon is an ingenious take on a decades old safety product.  It is the ultimate solution to overcome the issue of young children falling out of single beds.  A revolutionary, high quality and easy to use bed guard that provides a safe and secure night's sleep for a child moving from a cot into a single bed.

It is impossible to predict when and where an emergency situation will arise and for that reason it is important that access to the right information is available quickly. INDICARE^TM is intended to provide an always accessible Emergency First Aid Guide. It comes in the form of a small (5x5cm), water and scratch resistant concertina booklet, with two magnetic tabs allowing it to be opened quickly and closed securely.

Winner of the Dutch ‘Fire & Safety Innovation Award 2007' and the 2008 BPA BACRA Safety Product Award the Chick-A-Dee Smoke Detector sits perfectly in a nursery, enhancing the décor with this designer safety item.

Designed by the UK's number one brand in safety [source NPD Retail Tracking service - 2008 & Q1 2009 in £], numi is Lindam's new and beautifully designed safety gate. Sleek, elegant and safe, numi is different to any other safety gate on the market today. It has fine design, advanced technology and unparalleled safety features. numi is essential for every stylish house that's home to an young child whose starting to become mobile and independent! 

This is a recently developed reflective unit, designed to enhance the visibility of pushchairs and buggies in the darkness hours - winter evenings and mornings especially. It is a unique design, offering a completely secure,  dependable and highly visible reflective surface, to alert all drivers and motorcyclists to the presence of pushchairs/buggies, when ambient light is at its lowest, and young children, in pushchairs/buggies, are most vulnerable to impact and injury. The reflective unit, when attached, (to a fixed or swivel wheel) can withstand the rigours of normal buggy use.

In a parents' survey undertaken by baby sleep experts The Gro Company, 61% of new parents say their biggest worry is ensuring the safe sleep of their baby and just under half of all parents (45%) say their concern over safe sleep is being able to monitor their baby's temperature accurately.