Safety Education Materials for Parents: With Focus on In-house Safety Client: Ministry of Health and Welfare Researcher: Suh, Moon Hee, Research Fellow ∋ Study Needs and Objectives: ― The purpose of the study is to develop a training program material on the prevention of accidents that might happen in house and to disseminate this material to childcare centers and internet cites for children so that it can contribute to children's safety. ∋ Main contents: ― Basic Direction for Developing Training Materials on Safety to Parents. ∙ First, we should remember that pre-school children are very curious but they lack behavior control capacity and judgment. These characteristics of pre-school children should be reflected in the training materials. ∙ Second, the training materials should highlight some accidents that might happen in house since pre-school children would spend most of their time in house. ∙ Third, the training materials should not include too much colorful pictures since it is targeting parents and its subject is a serious matter of children's safety. ― Composition and Contents of Safety Education Materials for Parents (1) Composition of Education Materials ― The education material will be composed of three parts of introduction, main text and conclusion. ∙ The introduction part includes cover, forward, basic safety principles to be complied by parents, importance of safety in house and the purpose of the material; ∙ The main text includes safety within house, fire and burns, intoxication and suffocation, traffic safety, safety in playing, sex abuse and kidnapping and emergency treatment; ∙ The conclusion part includes safety-related internet sites and checklist for safety inspection. (2) Contents of Education Material ― Introduction Part. ∙ The title of cover will be "Mom and Dad, please keep me safe!"with the subtitle of "Parent's Guidebook for Children's Safety". The introduction part will include 7 safety rules to be followed by parents, emphasizing parent's constant attention to children's safety. The introduction part also described the purpose of the education material and presented some common examples of unsafe materials to children in the house such as knife and bleaching powder. ― Main Text: ∙ Safety in House: Safe Zone, Unsafe Zone This section stressed that parent's attention is critically important for safety of children and presents some unsafe areas. ∙ Fire and Burns: It is important for both adult and children to know causes of fire and to get first hand information on prevention of fire, use of fire extinguisher and emergency fire escape route. ∙ Intoxication and suffocation: As children are ignorant on the danger of chemicals or hard toys or foodstuff, parents should always pay attention to children's access to these materials since intoxication and suffocation are major cause of death for infants. This danger is highlighted in the text. ∙ Traffic Accident: As children should be aware of the danger of traffic accidents, the text presented some basic behavior to respond to the traffic accident. ∙ Plays and Exercise: Since most of children's accidents happened during play or exercise such as kickboard, roller skating and baby guns, the main text provides some safety tips to follow in indoors play, outdoors play and safety with animals. ∙ Kidnapping and Sex Abuse: Since children's sex abuse is due to their trust on adults and their inability to distinguish sex abusers, the main text provide some useful tips to follow in the house to prevent these crimes. ∙ Emergency Treatment: The text provides some emergency treatments for suffocation, drowning, bleeding, minor burns, insect bites or animal bites, and intoxication relief. ― Conclusion: This section provides safety-related internet sites and checklist for safety inspection.