Injury Prevention & Safety

Car Seat Safety

The Pierce County Public Health Department Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST) offers free inspections of car seats and booster seats as they are currently installed in your vehicle. The CPST will assist parents with proper installation of the seat as well as educating parents on safely securing the child in the seat.

Permanent Car Seat Fitting Station

Call to make an appointment: 715-273-6755

4 Steps plus 1

		Rear-Facing Seats For the best possible protection keep infants in the back seat, in rear-facing child safety seats as long as possible up to the height or weight limit of the particular seat. Recommendation is to keep an infant rear-facing until at least 2 years of age. (A child must stay rear-facing until they are 1year old and 20 pounds.)
		Forward-Facing Seats When children outgrow their rear-facing seats (at a minimum age of 1 and at least 20 pounds) they should ride in forward-facing child safety seats, in the back seat, until they reach the upper weight or height limit of the particular seat (usually around age 4 and 40 pounds)
		Booster Seats Once children outgrow their forward-facing seats (usually around age 4 & 40 pounds), they should ride in booster seats, in the back seat, until the vehicle seat belts fit properly. Seat belts fit properly when the lap belt lays across the upper thighs & the shoulder belt fits across the chest (usually at age 8 or when they are 4’9” tall).
		Seat Belts When children outgrow their booster seats, (usually at age 8 or when they are 4’9” tall) they can use the adult seat belt in the back seat, if it fits properly (lap belt lays across the upper thighs and the shoulder belt fits across the chest).

Adults and children that are old enough to use seat belts should properly position their head restraint, if possible. The top of a properly adjusted head restraint should be at or above the midpoint of the back of the occupant’s head.

Child Passenger Safety Tips

Wisconsin Car Seat Law

Poision Prevention Top Of Page

Child safety: Prevent poisoning

Tips from the Mayo Clinic available at http://www.wisconsinpoison.org

Poison Control Hotline: 1-800-222-1222

Pharmacists and Nurses trained in toxicology to answer your questions.
24-hour poison information resource for health care professionals and the public.
Free phone call.
Free service.
Confidential

Pool Safety for Children from the American Academy of Pediatrics

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A swimming pool in the yard can be very dangerous for children. If possible, do not put a swimming pool in your yard until your children are older than 5 years.

Remember, teaching your child how to swim DOES NOT mean your child is safe in water.

http://www.aap.org/family/tipppool.htm

Sharps Disposal Program Top Of Page

Sharps containers are used to collect used syringes, lancets, and other sharp objects that may contain biohazard waste. Sharps containers are available to the public at no charge at the following locations:

        · Pierce County Health Dept. - 412 W Kinne St., Ellsworth, WI
        · River Falls Area Hospital
        · Area pharmacies

For more information call 715-273-6755

Email Privacy Agreement

Please be advised that electronic communications with the department are not encrypted and confidentiality cannot be assured. Pierce County Public Health Staff will not discuss your private information through email until we have received a signed Agreement on the Use of Electronic Mail for Client Communications. Upon review, please sign and return to the department via fax or U.S. mail at the address listed on the form. By signing the Agreement we can begin to communicate with you by e-mail. Click on E-mail Agreement to see document.