What are some Halloween safety tips?

The following are 10 tips that parents should remember:

• Always accompany younger children for trick-or-treating.
• If they are old enough to trick-or-treat by themselves, have your children go in groups—even if only on your block or in your building.
• If your children is going on dark streets, have them take a flashlight. If they are going in apartment buildings, accompany them inside.
• Do not let your children enter a stranger's home or apartment. Have them ask for the treats while waiting outside the door.
• If your children are trick-or-treating at nighttime, make sure their costume is bright in color, or have them wear reflectors.
• If they are wearing masks, make sure the eye holes are the right size and in the right place so that vision is not blocked.
• Instruct your children on proper street-crossing safety.
• Make sure costumes are made of non-flammable material and are short enough so that they don't trip.
• Do not let them eat any candy before they get home and you examine it.
• Make sure they throw away any unwrapped foods.

Some Halloween safety tips are:

Trick or Treating

1. Costumes should allow free movement and visibility.
2. For fun and safety, choose or make costumes that are glow-in-the dark or at least have reflective tape on them.
3. Always examine your child's candy when he gets home and before allowing him to eat any of it.
4. Accompany your child, or at least wait at the sidewalk while they go to the door. 
5. Go to houses of people you know.
6. Have children carry a flashlight.

Parties

1. Have age-appropriate games.
2. Have age-appropriate prizes to help avoid choking and injury.
3. Be aware of how to help a child and adult who is choking.
4. Avoid serving alcohol at parties. If you feel you must provide alcohol, devise a way to tell how much a person has had to drink so he won't cause harm to himself or others. (Have a bar area set up and require hand stamps with each serving).
5. Make sure decorations are safe and mechanical ones are working properly.

 

Halloween safety must start with the parents. Make sure you have a plan of action before heading out to trick-or-treat. Bring flashlights and reflective gear so you can see and be seen at all times. While it is fun to be out while it is dark, walking the neighborhood when it is still light out can create a safer situation. Join up with other groups of trick-or-treaters to increase the number of adults; a bigger group is also easier to see for passing cars.