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Child Safety
Overview: Heatstroke is one of the leading causes of non-crash fatalities among children.
Prevention Tips
- Always Look Before You Lock
- Keep in Mind a Child’s Sensitivity to Heat
- Understand the Potential Consequences of Kids in Hot Cars
Traffic Safety Marketing: Heatstroke Prevention Toolkit
Tips and downloadable resources: safekids.org/heatstroke
Remember to ACT
- Avoid heatstroke.
- Create reminders.
- Take action.
Take Action Toolkit to Prevent Heatstroke
- Videos, Rapid Response Toolkit and Badge of Courage Award
- Tip Sheets, Talking Points, Sample Press Releases
- Infographics, Social Media Guide, Family Advocate Stories
- Resources for Child Care Providers and First Responders
Since 1998, approximately 25% of all child hot car deaths have occured in a parked car at the driver’s place of work. Visit our website and get free resources to raise awareness of safety risks and prevent more tragedies: Children are Dying in Hot Cars. In addition, share these free materials:
Infographic
Print this color graphic double-sided, then cut the page in half to create two handouts.
Mini-Zine
This pocket-size magazine has all of the key facts on parking lot distraction and hot cars. Half the fun is folding it! Watch our quick video to learn how:
Traffic Tabloid
Here are two Traffic Tabloid pieces devoted to the subject of parking lots, distraction and hot cars. Download, print and display:
Safety Checklist
This checklist is designed to help parents, caregivers and all those who transport children build safe habits into their daily routines. Download and share:
Safety Huddle
Use this one-page guide to create a safety talk or raise awareness of distraction risks in a workplace setting or at a community meeting. Download and share:
Talking Points
Educate everyone who cares for your child about vehicle heating dynamics, the lure of unattended cars to curious children and the power of autopilot on the brain.
Vehicle Heating Dynamics
How fast can a parked car heat up? Download and share this postcard-sized vehicle heating dynamics graphic. Then, cut it in half and create two handouts:
- Estimated Vehicle Interior Air Temperature vs. Elapsed Time (English)
- Estimated Vehicle Interior Air Temperature vs. Elapsed Time (Spanish)
What Else Can You Do?
- Watch this video and share one father’s story: A Promise to Payton
- Take a free online training course: Children in Hot Cars (available in English and Spanish)
- Check out the Kids in Hot Cars Report – One Child is Too Many: A Legislative Look Across the U.S.
- Go to NSC Injury Facts: Hot Car Deaths
Get up-to-date tracking of pediatric vehicular heatstroke deaths and vehicle heating information from San Jose State University Adjunct Professor of Meterology Jan Null: noheatstroke.org
Share data and free resources
Heatstroke
Download these free resources to raise awareness of risks and prevent more tragedies:
- Child stories
- Fact sheets
- Safety tips
- Charts
- Graphics
- Public Service Announcements
- Sample social media posts
- Studies
What to Do If You See a Child Alone in a Vehicle?
Videos to Watch and Share
What’s the Law?
Find out what states have laws making it illegal to leave a child unattended in a vehicle.
Prevent Child Deaths in Hot Cars: healthychildren.org
- Facts about Hot Cars & Keeping Kids Safe
- Know the Laws in Your State
- Take Action if You See a Child Alone in a Car
- What to do if the child is not responsive or in pain
- What to do if the child is responsive
- Things You Can Do to Prevent the Unthinkable
Protecting Children from Extreme Heat: Information for Parents
- Prevention tips
- Potential Health Effects of Extreme Heat
- When to Call Your Pediatrician
Information about Extreme Heat
- Information available in Spanish
- Keep Kids Cool and Hydrated
- Tips for Traveling with children
- Signos y síntomas de advertencia de enfermedades relacionadas con el calor
Resource for children: Ready Wrigley Prepares for Extreme Heat
The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association is actively involved in efforts to prevent children from dying in hot cars. JPMA believes that the most universal way to avert these tragedies is to equip new passenger vehicles with reminder systems and consider the potential for retrofitting existing vehicles with such systems.
Read the full statement: JPMA Hyperthermia/Heatstroke Position Statement.
Protecting Children from Heatstroke in Vehicles
Watch: Kristin Kingsley, a mechanical engineer and auto safety policy consultant, moderates this recorded webinar. The featured speakers: Amy Artuso, senior program manager with the National Safety Council and former chair of the National Child Passenger Safety Board; and Jan Null, an adjunct professor/lecturer of meteorology at the University of San Francisco and San Jose State University.
Heatstroke in Cars
Keeping Cars Safe for Kids: Working to Prevent Pediatric Heatstroke. This discussion focuses on ways to help prevent pediatric heatstroke through public awareness and technology advancements.
- Watch the Replay: Focus Driven Webinar (June 8, 2021)
Resources and information, including a voluntary commitment by vehicle manufacturers