Outdoor Safety

Read important tips on teaching your children to be safe while navigating and crossing streets.

Warmer weather and longer days beckon, and kids are answering the call. You can help keep them safe by reviewing these simple safety rules for outdoor play.

Find out how to keep your children and you safe when using fireworks.

Babies younger than six months of age should always be kept out of direct sunlight. Before you take your infant outdoors, be sure she is protected.

Check out if your local playground meets safety standards.

There are simple steps you can take to make your pool safer for young children.

Each year, high temperatures put people at risk but there is hope. Check out this Heat Emergency Guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The poison ivy rash is not contagious, but there are factors that cause it to spread on one person.

Check out the latest cookout safety tips.

There is no magic treatment for heat rash other than cooling off the patient.

It is not safe to bring a five-month-old into a whirlpool or jacuzzi-type bath that has a high temperature.

Every year over 200,000 children visit U.S. emergency rooms for injuries sustained on playgrounds. Schools need to address this problem.

It's quite normal to be frightened of the steps it takes to learn to swim.

While you and your kids are sitting in the sun and splashing in the water, play it safe with these pool safety rules.