Room-by-room checklist

Walk through your home. Tick each fix.

One room at a time. Every line is a thing you can do this week. Get down to your child's height and look: Kidsafe suggests crawling through each room on your hands and knees.1

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Kitchen

Burns and poisons start here.

Bathroom

Medicines, hot water and the bath.

Laundry

Pods, bleach and buckets.

Living areas

Tip-overs, batteries and cords.

Bedrooms and nursery

Where children sleep and climb.

Stairs and windows

Falls are 1 in 3 child injury hospital stays.7

Garage and shed

Chemicals, tools and the car.

Outdoors and pool

Half the under-5 drownings in 2024–25 were in home pools.4

Something has happened? Poisons Information Centre 13 11 26, any hour, anywhere in Australia. Emergency 000.
Rather someone did it for you? Fix my home builds your list in two taps and books one visit to fit it all. Visiting grandparents? Read Grandparents' homes.

Sources

  1. Kidsafe Australia, A Parent's Guide to Kidsafe Homes (Oct 2020). kidsafe.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/202010-A-Parents-Guide-to-Kidsafe-Homes-Web.pdf
  2. Kidsafe Australia, Poisoning information sheet (2019). kidsafe.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Poisoning-Information-Sheet.pdf
  3. Competition and Consumer (Corded Internal Window Coverings) Safety Standard 2014, in force 1 Jan 2015. legislation.gov.au/F2014L00363
  4. Royal Life Saving, National Drowning Report 2025. royallifesaving.com.au/library/national-drowning-report
  5. Queensland Government, Button batteries. qld.gov.au: button batteries
  6. Plumbing Connection quoting the Victorian Building Authority (12 Jul 2022). plumbingconnection.com.au
  7. AIHW, Injuries in children and adolescents 2021–22; Forster & Griffin, J Children & Young People's Health 2024 (burns). aihw.gov.au · cambridgemedia.com.au
  8. Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, The tipping point (Aug 2021). blogs.rch.org.au
  9. Queensland Government, Tips for a safe pool (Jun 2022). qld.gov.au/housing/buying-owning-home/pool-safety/tips

Child Safety at Home · kidsafest.com/checklist.html · General information, not a substitute for your state's laws or a professional's advice.