Tips to keep your children safe this Halloween in Oakville, Burlington, Milton

Halloween (Oct. 31) is right around the corner and keeping your kid safe while trick-or-treating in Oakville, Burlington, Milton, and Halton Hills is most important.

A fun and rewarding evening for kids, parents can help keep their children safe by following a few safety tips provided by Halton Healthcare.

“Halloween is just around the corner, and it is a fun evening for all those little ghouls and ghosts,” said Kassondra Stockman-Sousa, Emergency Preparedness Advisor for Halton Healthcare. “To keep trick-or-treating as fun as possible, we need to be as safe as possible.”

Stockman-Sousa says, from one parent to another, here are seven tips that will help keep your children safe this Halloween:

• Stay in well-lit areas. Only visit houses with the lights on. Ensure your children never go inside a stranger’s home.
• Ensure your children never go alone. Always stay with a parent or in a group.
• Be careful crossing the street. It’s best to do so at designated crosswalks.
• Add reflective tape or other reflective devices to your child’s costume, and to your own clothes as well.
• Look over all the treats to ensure they are sealed and intact before eating. Discard all opened, damaged, or homemade treats.
• Drive slowly and watch out for kids.
• And of course, always practice good hand hygiene before eating those goodies.

Halloween is just around the corner! Watch as Kassondra, Emergency Preparedness Advisor at Halton Healthcare, shares some tips to help keep your children safe while trick-or-treating!🎃🍬👻 pic.twitter.com/6Xvu17B4lY

— Halton Healthcare (@HaltonHlthcare) October 29, 2024