Child Safety
People often reflect on fond childhood memories of summer camp, sports and fun in the sun. However, it’s not always fun and games. Help keep kids safe and do your part to protect your organization from potential risks related to vulnerable populations.
Child Safety Articles
Reviver Statutes Remind Us Why—and How—To Improve Recordkeeping
To help support survivors, protect vulnerable populations and ensure legal defensibility, organizations must prioritize comprehensive, trauma-informed recordkeeping practices.
Tue Jul 15, 2025
How Nonprofits Can Navigate Background Screening for Justice-Involved Individuals [Guide]
Nonprofits working with justice-involved individuals face the challenge of balancing safety with fair hiring practices. This guide helps leaders navigate legal and ethical complexities in background screening, from understanding laws to choosing appropriate tools and offense criteria.
Fri Jul 11, 2025
Offering Childcare at Your Health and Fitness Studio? Childcare Safety Tips You Should Consider
By focusing on key areas such as facility setup, supervision, staff training and recordkeeping, studios can implement consistent practices that support child safety and help reduce the risk of incidents that could lead to liability claims.
Thu May 29, 2025
Protecting Places of Worship: A Guide to Security in Religious Organizations [Checklist Included]
By integrating security measures, conducting regular assessments, and engaging with the community, religious organizations can create a safer environment for their congregants.
Tue Oct 22, 2024
Help Your School Bus Passengers Stay Safe
Distracted driving can seriously impair a driver’s ability to control the bus, putting everyone on board at risk. School bus drivers should take steps to make sure that students behave well to avoid becoming distracted.
Fri Oct 04, 2024
Understanding and Preventing Child Abuse at Public Entities
While child abuse occurs predominantly in the home, it is also a pervasive issue in public institutions, so prevention efforts are needed in schools, libraries, rec centers, camps, and other public institutions supporting youth.
Tue Sep 24, 2024
Strengthening Public Entity Protection: Key Actions for Ensuring Public Pool Safety
If your public entity uses public pools, then attention to detail is needed to help protect swimmers. Organizations can help ensure safety by planning, protecting and responding to events quickly.
Mon Jun 12, 2023
Top Strategies for De-Escalating Disruptive Student Behavior
The news that student de-escalation is a hot topic likely comes as no surprise to adults working with adolescents. The social and emotional well-being of youth is having a noticeable impact on educational settings with seemingly no simple solution.
Thu Sep 08, 2022
What Happens Once Abuse & Neglect is Reported?
Organizational response is the difference between an effective abuse prevention program and one that fails to perform as intended, protecting both the individual and the organization.
Wed Apr 27, 2022
Help Protect Your Organization with a Safety Management System
A Safety Management System (SMS) is a system developed within your organization that is intended to collect important information about the risk of abuse and send it to different levels within the organization.
Wed Apr 27, 2022
Help Mitigate Risk by Responding to Red Flag Behavior
Discover how addressing red flag behavior can help protect your organization and reduce risk.
Wed Apr 27, 2022
How to Identify Danger
What are the common characteristics of an offender? These child sexual abuse statics show us that the problem is embedded and increasingly difficult to identify.
Wed Apr 13, 2022
Monitoring and Supervising Staff
Abuse can happen in predictable patterns and places. Assessing staff behaviors and their environment is critical when working with employees and volunteers.
Wed Apr 13, 2022
Use Safety Committees to Help Reduce Losses and Costs
Safety committees can play an effective role in any organizational risk management effort.
Mon Dec 20, 2021
Policies and Procedures To Help Prevent Abuse
Policies inform staff, volunteers, participants, parents and the community what inappropriate behavior can look like and when to tell someone about it.
Tue Oct 12, 2021
Understand the Risk of Aquatic Inflatables
Commercial water inflatables and lake-based swimming pose a possible drowning risk. These tips can help you take corrective action right away.
Tue Aug 24, 2021
Help Your Organization Prevent Cyberbullying
Bullying and harassment can be traumatic for people of all ages. In recent years, cyberbullying has become especially concerning. Cyberbullying can be defined in two different manners
Thu Jul 15, 2021
Help Protect Your Community from Civil Unrest
Adequate planning and execution can help protect life and property during times of civil unrest.
Wed Jun 02, 2021
Manage Your Risk in Online Learning Environments
You should manage the risks associated with online learning to help your organization stay on course toward fulfilling your mission and serving others.
Fri Mar 05, 2021
Protect Your Business with a Violence Prevention Program
Different types of violence can occur in many workplaces. To help prevent workplace violence, management must provide visible support for a violence prevention program and communicate that there is zero tolerance for violence.
Fri Dec 04, 2020
Understanding the Risks of 15-Passenger Vans
Make roadways safer by practicing these measures while operating a 15-passenger van.
Fri Nov 06, 2020
Operational Change Management Checklist
Resiliency and adaptability are necessities in today’s quickly evolving world.
Wed Oct 28, 2020
Stay Safe on Inflatable Amusement Rides
Inflatable amusement rides have gained popularity over the past decade for fairs, festivals, church organizations, schools and even for home parties.
Mon Jun 29, 2020
Concussion Prevention: Creating a Safe Sport Culture
Promote athlete safety by building a sport culture focused on concussion prevention and injury awareness.
Thu Jun 25, 2020
Prepare to Care for Campers
Camp is often the highlight of the year for kids of all ages. But injuries and illnesses that can occur while there can dampen their spirits in a heartbeat.
Fri May 08, 2020
Campground Management Safety Checklist
Help protect your campground and guests by implementing essential safety measures outlined in this detailed checklist.
Fri Nov 01, 2019
Bicycle Safety Tips Before You Ride
Ride confidently by following proven bicycle safety practices that help prevent accidents and keep you protected.
Tue Oct 15, 2019
Protect Youth Sports Participants
Coaches, volunteers, staff and officials can help prevent child sexual abuse in their sports organizations. Adhering to written policies and procedures can help create a positive and safe environment.
Wed Jun 19, 2019
Stay Safe on the Playground
Playgrounds are a great place to build community and to help keep children active. However, accidental injuries can occur due to falls, hangings, entrapments, strikes by moving parts or sharp points.
Thu Jul 05, 2018
Get Familiar with Electric Shock Drowning
Help prevent tragic accidents by understanding electric shock drowning and how to stop it.
Fri May 18, 2018
Mosquito Bite Prevention for Travelers
Mosquitoes spread many types of viruses and parasites that can cause diseases like chikungunya, dengue, Zika, and malaria. If you are traveling to an area where malaria is found, talk to your healthcare provider about malaria prevention medication that may be available.
Thu Aug 24, 2017
Swimming Pool Safety
Each year, over 4,500 people in the United States die by drowning. Many more are injured in pool related accidents. With these facts in mind, it is imperative that proper supervision and control be established at all swimming pools open to the public.
Wed Aug 23, 2017
Loss Control Categories
Take proactive action to prepare for different types of loss.