Smart Steps for Parents

Smarts Steps: Making safer choices - Taking smarter steps has a great range of road safety education information and resources for families and anyone transporting young children. The resources include ideas for parents and carers to help young children develop skills, behaviours and attitudes to become safer while travelling as passengers, pedestrians and users of bikes and wheeled toys.

The Smart Steps: A Road Safety Booklet for Parents and Carers has key road safety messages for parents to use and share with children such as – always hold a grown up’s hand when crossing the road. The three activity booklets within the resource can be used to engage children in their road safety education.  

The Passenger Safety activity booklet has tips on making sure children are seated in the correct size restraint for their size and an activity for children.

The Play Safety activity booklet has tips on setting up safe play areas away from roads, teaching children how to put on their bicycle helmet and an activity for children.

The Pedestrian Safety activity booklet has tips on teaching children how to cross roads safely, key messages to say when out walking together and an activity for children.

It is the law that all children under 16 years of age, when travelling in a motor vehicle in Western Australia, must be restrained in a suitable restraint that is properly adjusted and fastened. 

The information in this brochure will assist you in making the correct choices when buying and using child car seats.

Visit the Child Car Seats website for more information on buying a child car restraint. 

Izzy's online road safety game helps you learn all about road safety. There are games to play, stories to read and songs to sing. Click the link to play The Izzy interactive road safety game.