Child Safety and Injury Prevention

Ensuring child safety is critical to help reduce the risk of injury and death for infants, children, and adolescents. Each year in Nevada, over 100 children die from preventable causes of death. The four leading causes of child death are:

1. Non-motor vehicle accidents such as asphyxia (suffocation), drowning, gunshot wounds, and drug overdoses
2. Motor vehicle accidents, especially for children and adolescents who are passengers in vehicles
3. Homicide
4. Suicide

Different age groups of children and adolescents are at risk for different types of death. Infants and young children are at greater risk of accidental asphyxia deaths, which often result from unsafe sleeping environments and parents co-sleeping with their children. Sadly, they are also at greater risk of homicide by abuse and neglect. Adolescents are at greater risk of motor vehicle accidents, suicide, and drug overdoses. All age groups are at risk of drowning, especially children between ages one and four. In our region, where many homes and apartments have swimming pools and spas, and families enjoy water sports at nearby lakes, it is very important for parents and caregivers to supervise their children and ensure water safety.

Click on a link below for more information on how you can prevent accidents and deaths for children and adolescents:

Promote Safe Sleeping

• Safe Sleep for Your Baby
• Cunas Seguras para Los Bebés

Prevent Choking

• Child Choking Prevention
• Prevención de Asfixia de Niño

Practice Pool Safety and Prevent Drowning

• Pool Safety
• Seguridad en la Piscina

Prevent Burns

• Protect The Ones You Love - Burns

Protect Your Children From Furniture Hazards

• Preventing TV and Furniture Tip-Over Deaths
• Cómo Evitar las Muertes y las Lesiones Asociadas con la Caída de Televisores, Muebles y Electrodomésticos

Ensure Medical Safety

If your child relies on electrically operated medical equipment and you need help to ensure an uninterrupted power supply, please visit NV Energy - Green Cross.

Secure Weapons

• Child Gun Safety
• Las Armas de Fuego y la Seguridad de los Niños

Safely Use Over-The-Counter (OTC) Medications for Children and Prevent Accidental Overdoses

• Children & Household Medications
• Niños y Medicamentos de Casa

This information is brought to you in cooperation with the Nevada Administrative Team to Review the Death of Children and the Nevada Executive Committee to Review the Death of Children.