This publication is aimed at staff of early childhood centers and daycares, family daycare providers, teaching staff, as well as students in early childhood education. It serves as a practical and well-documented tool for injury prevention.This work proposes a dynamic, preventive, and educational approach that invites children, childcare staff, managers, and parents to do what is necessary to ensure that the environment and practices of educational childcare services are as safe as possible.
This fifth edition represents a complete revision of the previous edition. Its content is now limited to safety and prevention aspects. The content of Part 2 from previous editions regarding first aid is now covered in the documentation provided by organizations that offer first aid training.Just like its supplement, Children's Health... in Educational Childcare Services, the guide Children's Safety... in Educational Childcare Services remains a valuable tool for establishing and maintaining conditions that allow children to develop safely in educational childcare services in Quebec.