CEN Guide 12:2006
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Child safety - Guidance for its inclusion in standards
11-03-2023
30-06-2006
Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Background to childhood development
4.1 How children's safety differs from adults' safety
4.2 Children's need to explore, experiment and learn
from mistakes
5 Criteria for assessing risks and hazards
5.1 Developmental approach to child safety
5.2 Adult safety and alternative approaches
5.3 Children's ages and abilities
5.4 The roles of carers
5.5 Cultural, generational and gender differences
5.6 Limits to the reduction of risks
6 Relating child safety to development stages
6.1 The basic development/age bands
6.2 Children aged under 3 years old
6.3 Children and young people aged 3-11 years old
6.4 Young people aged 12 years old and over
7 Using appropriate terminology
7.1 Children
7.2 Carers
7.3 Communicating with the target groups
8 Assessing child safety
8.1 Summarizing issues that need to be addressed under
the Child Safety Mandate
8.2 Foreseeing exposure
8.3 Analysing reports of accidents involving children
and young people
8.4 Foreseeing other potential hazards to children
and young people
9 Approaches to protection
9.1 Identifying effective methods of protection
9.2 Recommending minimum ages or other characteristics
9.3 Recommending minimum competence levels
Annex A (informative) Introduction to Annexes B - F
A.1 Approach
A.2 Relating the tables to the hazard identification
and prevention steps
A.3 Sources of knowledge and expert opinion from
which the annexes are derived
Annex B (informative) CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Annex C (informative) Examples illustrating the development
and behaviour of young children up to approximately
3 years
Annex D (informative) Examples illustrating the development
and behaviour of children/young people aged
approximately 3 years and over
Annex E (informative) Application of guidance
Bibliography
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