The Home Safety Checklist

Most injuries to young children happen at home, and nearly all of them come down to a handful of fixable things: a dresser that isn't anchored, a cupboard that isn't latched, a gate that was never fitted. The trouble is that "childproof the house" is a vague, guilt-shaped chore that never quite gets done. This checklist turns it into the FamilyDecode kind of task instead — decide once, calmly, then let a printed page carry the rest. Print it, walk each room at a toddler's eye level, and tick what's safe. You won't do it all in a day, and you don't need to. Start with the lines marked high priority.

What you get

• One print-ready A4 page — the whole home on a single sheet
• Grouped by room: kitchen & fire, bathroom & water, stairs & falls, bedrooms & nursery, garage & outdoors
• High-priority items flagged, so you know exactly where to start
• Real tick-boxes and a plain layout that photocopies cleanly

Prefer to grab it straight away? Open the printable page and download the PDF →

How to use it

1. Walk. Carry the page room to room, crouched to a small child's height — you'll notice hazards you stopped seeing years ago.
2. Fix or flag. Tick what's already safe; circle what needs a latch, an anchor, or a purchase, and add those to one short shopping list.
3. Re-walk. Check again every birthday and after any move. A crawler, a climber, and a curious five-year-old each need a different house.