Home safety resources for community groups

It doesn't matter your age, your ethnicity, whether you live by yourself or with others, everyone can do more to make sure we're safe at home. Community groups play a vital role in reminding people how to stay safe and injury free in their own home. There are lots of easy things that you can do to reduce likelihood of injury, here are some tools to help you.

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Encourage safety at home

  • Why not encourage other people in your community to be safer at home? You could send out a safety tip on a newsletter, a flyer or bring it up at your next meeting. You'll be surprised the difference you can make if you give it a go.

Further Information

For Kids

Home safety quiz

Create your own home safety quiz and test your friends or colleagues. You could help them prevent injuries in their home plus they will have great fun doing it!

Home safety quiz

Top 5 Tips

  • Safety Begins at Home - Top 5 Tips Leaflet

    Check out our Top 5 Tips for making your home safer. You’d be surprised what you can do in just a matter of minutes! You can download a copy for your home or why not help out your friends and family and email it on – this way you’ll be doing your bit for the environment too.

    Check out Top 5 Tips

Downloads

  • Need some help encouraging
    safer homes? We have heaps of material you can use. Please bear in mind the environment, so if you don't need to print it, please don't.

  • 'Safety Begins at Home' logo

    Download the logo to use for web or print.

    Download ZIP (168kb)
  • 'Safety Begins at Home' buttons

    Download the buttons to use for web.

    Download ZIP (27kb)
  • Home safety DIY leaflet

    This leaflet shows you how to stay as safe as houses when doing DIY.

    Download PDF (182kb)
  • Home safety posters

    Five posters that highlight interesting NZ home safety statistics.

    Download ZIP (2.7mb)
  • Home safety leaflet

    This leaflet shows you the main areas in the home where injuries happen and the simple steps you can take to prevent them.

    Download PDF (204kb)
  • Home in on safety

    Complete a checklist in your home to identify hazards.

    Download PDF (344kb)
  • Safer home design leaflet

    Are you building a house or renovating? Making your home safe is easy to do and won't cost a lot - especially if you start early in the building process.

    Download PDF (4.8mb)
  • Standing up to falls booklet

    Do you know an older adult who wants to remain safe and independent in their own home?

    Download PDF (3.9mb)
  • Ladder safety brochure

    Are you going to be up a ladder soon? Many injuries happen outside, on and around ladders. The good news is that almost all these injuries can be prevented with a little planning ahead.

    Download PDF (314kb)
  • Safekids hot drink burns are preventable

    Making a hot drink is simple, but can also be dangerous. Hot drinks are the number one cause of burn injuries and hospitalisations among children under five years old.

    Download PDF (380 KB)
  • Safekids Splash into Safety

    Keep your kids safe when in, on and around water.

    Download PDF - English (604 KB)
    Download PDF - Māori (604 KB)
  • Home water safety checklist

    You can keep children safe from drowning by ensuring your home is Water Safe and through constant supervision.

    Download PDF (72 KB)

Useful reading

Below is a list of articles on a range of home safety topics. There is a short and long version of each article that you can use, depending on your requirements.

Fame or Shame

Here is a range of material that can be used to promote the interactive home safety challenge - Fame or Shame.