Bath safety

Learn how to keep your child safe in the bathtub and properly use bath seats.

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Bathtub safety

Bathtub drowning can occur within seconds, without a sound and in only a few centimetres (1 inch) of water.

Hot tap water can burn your child in seconds. A child’s skin burns in a quarter of the time it takes an adult's skin to burn.

To keep your child safe in the bathtub, remember to always:

If you must leave the bathroom, even for a few seconds, take your child with you.

Bath seats

Never rely on a bath seat to ensure the safety of your baby in a bath tub.

The use of infant bath seats and bath rings has been linked to the drowning death of infants in Canada. Drowning has occurred when:

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