Why This Exists

This project traces back to two children. Joshua and Lily. From that grief came a question that wouldn't go away — not "how do we cope" but "how do we prevent."

That question became a design principle. Then a system. Then fourteen goals. Every one of those goals traces to a system that broke a real person. Child safety sits upstream of nearly all of them.

The numbers aren't abstract

The most dangerous place for a child in this country isn't the street. It isn't the school. It's the home. Where the place is recorded, 45% of child injury hospitalisations happen at home. Transport causes 14%. Road safety has its campaigns, seatbelt ads and speed cameras. Home safety deserves the same.

And yet most of these injuries are preventable. Not with expensive equipment. Not with surveillance. With awareness. With knowing that the typical child burned is 3. That toddlers drown in a few centimetres of water. That a swallowed button battery can do serious harm within hours.

What we're building

This site exists because awareness is the first step. The statistics are here — every number sourced, every claim backed by data from the institutions that track this.

The 3D home explorer lets you walk through a home and find the hidden dangers — room by room, age by age. Not a lecture. An experience. You see what a two-year-old sees. You find what they find. And you understand why it matters.

Part of something bigger

This site is part of Omxus — a broader project building identity, democracy, safety, and freedom systems. Built by Tia (Alex Applebee) and a community of people who believe the systems we inherited aren't working, and that we can build better ones.

We're not a company. We're not selling anything. We're not funded by anyone with an agenda. The site is free. There are no ads. No cookies. No sign-up.

We're not selling anything. We're serving. If you think of a better way, let's do it.

Data sources

Every statistic on this site is sourced from Australian government bodies and established research institutions. The sources are:

• AIHW — Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Injuries in children and adolescents 2021–22 (hospitalisations by cause, age and place), Child protection Australia 2024–25, Suicide and self-harm monitoring: young people 2023–24.
• Australian Child Maltreatment Study — Medical Journal of Australia, 2023. How many Australians experienced each type of maltreatment as children.
• Royal Life Saving Australia — National Drowning Report 2025.
• Poisons Information Centres — 2015 annual report (MJA 2018), the latest national report, and the NSW Poisons Information Centre.
• AIFS — Australian Institute of Family Studies. Self-injury among adolescents, Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (2021).
• CHOICE — Button battery dangers (2020), citing Product Safety Australia.
• Forster and Griffin — Journal of Children and Young People's Health, 2024, citing BRANZ 2022–23, for burns.

Where a specific claim references a study or report, the source is cited. If you find an error or an unsourced claim, tell us. We'll fix it or remove it.

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