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Educating parents and caretakers about children's safety is essential today. Yet informing them adequately about car seat use can be particularly difficult, since standards, best practices, and products keep changing.

Give out the latest car seat safety information—inexpensively

We are a child-passenger-safety information company with a long history of providing the most accurate, up-to-date materials available. Safe Ride News Fact Sheets can help you promote safety and educate children's caregivers in your community. The fact sheets are consumer-oriented, easy-to-read, and reproducible. Each fact sheet deals in detail with a specific safety issue and answers common child safety questions.

We offer fact sheets you can trust covering car safety. All our fact sheets are convenient and inexpensive. They are reproducible, so you can print and distribute the quantities you need for your local program (non-commercial use only, please).

 

SRN Fact Sheets provide:

  • Information that is clear, accurate, and up-to-date, based on current best practices and recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; they are reviewed annually by child passenger safety experts.
  • Topics of particular interest to parents of children in all age ranges, answering common questions related to children’s size, age, and developmental needs.
  • Clear explanations of recommendations in language that is as easy to understand as possible, given the complex nature of the subject; the text is written at the 6th to 7th grade reading level.
  • Appealing, multi-ethnic illustrations that reinforce the material.
  • Lists of additional resources parents can turn to if they have further questions.

Note: SAFE RIDE NEWS subscribers receive a discount on Fact Sheets.

Always Something New—Topics and updates for 2007


Better value than ever, at the same price!  Now, some sheets are available in pre-printed pads.

Update time has come and there are several big changes in the SRN fact sheets for 2007.

Readability
The 5 basic sheets for pregnancy, newborns, big babies, toddlers, and booster-size children have been revised for better readability.  We often have been asked to simplify the sheets.  A health educator experienced in low-literacy level materials has reviewed and reorganized, and edited them without removing the information that we feel to be necessary.  The basics have been placed first and some illustrations now have labels.  (When all fact sheets are reviewed each year, an effort is made to make sure the language is as simple and direct as possible, so they are constantly being improved in this regard.)

New fact sheet:
As promised earlier this year, a two-page fact sheet, What to Do about Recalls, is now included.  It covers CR and vehicle recalls and answers common questions.

Expanded information:
The sheets on pregnancy and selecting a CR were expanded from one side to two:
Are You Pregnant?:  Additional ways (other than restraint use) to reduce risk have been added.  More space has been devoted (on the back) to choosing and using a CR for a newborn.
Selecting the Right Kind of Car Seat: Topics added include evaluating crash tests and usability ratings, second-hand car seats, not moving a child to the next stage too early, and car seat features to look for.

Best practice:
All sheets have been updated to further emphasize the importance of keeping children in appropriate restraint systems as long as possible.  We advise keeping children rear-facing up to 18 months or more, in a FF seat with internal harness for 40 pounds or higher, in a booster to 8 to 10 years—until the lap-shoulder belt fits properly, and in the back seat to at least age 13.

Other changes:
Both the tether and LATCH sheets have been extensively rewritten for clarity.  More has been added to the tether sheet regarding using tethers for car seats for children above 40 pounds.

Aircraft: the new aircraft-specific restraint, CARES, has been added (article to be in January/February 2007  issue).

2007 Fact Sheet Topics:

Infant Safety Restraints
A1-Are You Pregnant? Buckling up for Two (includes Choosing an Infant Car Seat)
A2-Car Safety for Tiny Babies: Preemies and Low Birth Weight Babies Need Special Care
A3-This is the Way the Baby Rides (newborn)
A4-Car Safety for Growing Babies (4-18 months)
A5-Check Your Child's Car Seat
A6-Kids and Air Bags Don't Mix
A7-Child Restraints for Newborn Infants: A Health Care Providers' Guide

Restraints for Toddlers to Teens
B1-Selecting the Right Ki nd of Car Seat: Stages of Car Seat Use
B2-Meeting the Toddler Car Seat Challenge (1- to 3-year-olds)
B3-Boosters for Big Kids, Protecting preschoolers and children up to age 8
B4-Buckling Up, Keeping Youth Safe, Preteens from 8 to 12: Making Safer Choices
B5-Risky Business: Teens as beginning drivers
B6-Grandparents’ Guide to Car Seats

Vehicle/Installation Issues
C1-Installing Your Child’s Car Seat Tightly
C2-Learning About LATCH
C3-A Tether is Better!
C4-Choosing a Vehicle for Family Safety
C5-What to do about Recalls

Special Needs
D1-A Safe Ride for Children with Special Needs
D2-Child Restraints for Children with Special Needs-Healthcare Providers Guide

Related issues
E1-Safer Airplane Travel with Babies and Toddlers
E2-Parked Cars: Dangerous for Kids
E3-Safe Walking
E4-Start the Helmet Habit Early
E5-A Safe Ride for Kids on Bikes
E6-Kids on a Roll: Inline Skates, Roller Skates, Skateboards, Scooters

 

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