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Advice for Parents: Firework Night Child Safety
Firework night is a brilliant time for all the the family to have fun together, and it goes off with a bang every year. We love wearing wooly coats and hats, lighting sparklers and watching the bonfire - and especailly fireworks. But it's a dangerous night, with lots of things that can go wrong. Here is our advice for parents on child safety, and how to avoid disaster.
1.Keep an eye on teenagers under age wanting to buy fireworks and using them dangerously with their friends.2.Try to go to an organised display, its usually safer, and cheaper too than buying your own.3. Dont have a small fire in your back yard if you dont have a very large space, wood can so easily fall over setting a light to other wooden seats wall climbers etc.4.Keep all pets indoors locked away on bonfire night. the last thing you need is a scared cat trying to escape amongst the loud noices.Pets are terrified with the noice caused by rockets and bangers going off.
5.Don't mix drink with bonfires and fireworks or at least let one adult not drinking alcohol set off the fireworks. A recent accident killed a man by falling drunk into a bonfire.6.keep all fireworks in a secure tin with a lid and use a torch to read each ones instructions,do not the fuse wire to try to see with the whole box in your hand.keep well back when attaching spinning wheels they do sometimes come off and could spin near a small child.7. Have 2 buckets of water ready for emergencies children can put their sparklers in one of them after using one thus stopping other children from trying to pick them up off the floor, whilst they are still hot.
8.let children use gloves when waving sparklers, when they try to take the firework from you once it has been lit they could grab the wrong end and cause severe burns.9.let a responsible adult Light each firework at arms length and don't rush back to each fire work if it doesn't go off.10.damp down the fire when you have all gone indoors.10.If there are any fireworks left over keep them in the tin and out of childrens reach if you intend to use them on another occassion such as new year.
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5.Don't mix drink with bonfires and fireworks or at least let one adult not drinking alcohol set off the fireworks. A recent accident killed a man by falling drunk into a bonfire.6.keep all fireworks in a secure tin with a lid and use a torch to read each ones instructions,do not the fuse wire to try to see with the whole box in your hand.keep well back when attaching spinning wheels they do sometimes come off and could spin near a small child.7. Have 2 buckets of water ready for emergencies children can put their sparklers in one of them after using one thus stopping other children from trying to pick them up off the floor, whilst they are still hot.
8.let children use gloves when waving sparklers, when they try to take the firework from you once it has been lit they could grab the wrong end and cause severe burns.9.let a responsible adult Light each firework at arms length and don't rush back to each fire work if it doesn't go off.10.damp down the fire when you have all gone indoors.10.If there are any fireworks left over keep them in the tin and out of childrens reach if you intend to use them on another occassion such as new year.
for more free information on child safety
read one of our stores main articles at www.cheekychumsonline.co.uk
