People around the globe are working to make the world a safer place for you. Your family and other adults are doing all they can, and you need to contribute by learning how to keep yourself safe. By making safe choices, you can help to avoid getting hurt.

This booklet, Have fun, be safe! is here to help you learn. It was written to go along with the World Report on Child Injury Prevention 2008, which brings together information and ideas from all over the world to make you safer.

You have a right to be safe, and there are lots of changes that can be made to keep you safe and prevent you from getting hurt. Some are actions your parents need to take. They can keep an eye on you, make sure your home is a safe place and teach you about the dangers you may meet. Your teachers can help with that too.

The companies that make toys and build cars can make sure that they make them as safe as they can be. The people in charge of the country, the government or ruler, can pass laws to keep us safe, for example laws that say we must wear cycle helmets and laws that say cars cannot be driven at unsafe speeds. And they can make sure that there are hospitals, doctors and nurses to help us if we do get hurt.

But however safe your country and your family keep you, there are some actions that are YOUR job. You need to learn to be safe, so that you can avoid being injured. This booklet is here to help you do that.

It was written to go along with the World Report on Child Injury Prevention 2008, which brings together information and ideas from all over the world to improve child safety.

We hope you enjoy learning more about injuries and how to stop them from happening. Have fun, be safe!

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United Nations Children’s Fund
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World Health Organization
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Email: childinjury@who.int
Website: www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/child
ISBN 978-92-806-4366-4
© United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
December 2008

CONTENTS
All about injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. page 2
Road safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7
Walking safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8
Bicycle safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10
Passenger safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12
Preventing drowning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
Preventing burns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16
Preventing falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
Preventing poisoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20
What you can do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 22
What have you learned?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24

Being Safe, Being Sure
Injuries can happen, but knowing more about what injuries are and how to prevent them can save your life and the lives of others. This booklet has described lots of actions you can take to avoid accidents and make serious injuries less likely to happen.

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