Hello and Welcome to Child Seat Safety Place!
Child Seat Safety Place is run by Kat Furlong, who is an independent child seat expert. Kat has many years experience of working within the child seat industry advising parents and fitting child seats. She is IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) accredited and works on the national child car seat campaign, as well as delivering product training for major manufacturers and tailored training for independent retailers.
Kat's passion and drive to ensure parents have all the information to hand; to make the best choice for them and their child has seen her help and advise thousands of parents, and check 1000+ car seats!
Statement from Kat:
"Everyone wants their child to be safe in the car, and naturally, parents do their utmost surrounding this. However, when I first began working on child seats, it greatly disturbed me to learn that as many as 70% of seats are not fitted or used correctly. I knew I had to do something to help make parents aware, and to offer them polite, guided information so they could correct the errors unknowingly made. Although lots of errors are only minor little things, they could make a big impact to the child's safety in a crash. There are also major errors made, which would have a significant impact to the child's safety - I don't want any parent to have to experience that because they couldn't find the information they needed. So I set up Child Seat Safety Place."
The website has been split into 3 sections:
Parent/Carer Area - this has useful child seat information, and how you can go about getting advice or a seat check
Childminder Training - training for childminders, focusing on the law, recognising unsafe seats, recognising an unsafe fit and how to follow fitting guides on seats.
Commercial Training - this gives details on how to contact Kat if you are an independent retailer wanting general child seat training, or a manufacturer needing product training.
Child Seat Safety Place is run by Kat Furlong, who is an independent child seat expert. Kat has many years experience of working within the child seat industry advising parents and fitting child seats. She is IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) accredited and works on the national child car seat campaign, as well as delivering product training for major manufacturers and tailored training for independent retailers.
Kat's passion and drive to ensure parents have all the information to hand; to make the best choice for them and their child has seen her help and advise thousands of parents, and check 1000+ car seats!
Statement from Kat:
"Everyone wants their child to be safe in the car, and naturally, parents do their utmost surrounding this. However, when I first began working on child seats, it greatly disturbed me to learn that as many as 70% of seats are not fitted or used correctly. I knew I had to do something to help make parents aware, and to offer them polite, guided information so they could correct the errors unknowingly made. Although lots of errors are only minor little things, they could make a big impact to the child's safety in a crash. There are also major errors made, which would have a significant impact to the child's safety - I don't want any parent to have to experience that because they couldn't find the information they needed. So I set up Child Seat Safety Place."
The website has been split into 3 sections:
Parent/Carer Area - this has useful child seat information, and how you can go about getting advice or a seat check
Childminder Training - training for childminders, focusing on the law, recognising unsafe seats, recognising an unsafe fit and how to follow fitting guides on seats.
Commercial Training - this gives details on how to contact Kat if you are an independent retailer wanting general child seat training, or a manufacturer needing product training.