International Science and Technology Journal

Background Children’s Safety and Health is a core factor to eliminate and to reduce risk exposure of hazardous, many factors contribute to child accidents indoor and outdoor, which can lead to serious damage, health deterioration, injuries or even death.Objectives Assessment of risks to children through parent’s perception and Comparing between gender and age. Methods questionnaire was distributed randomly then samples were gathered from 355 participants as parent’s child, boy and girl, aged (6, 7, 8, 9 years old), from 23 schools from different locations in Tripoli, data analysed using SPSS, version 22, alpha was set at 0.05 Results 20% of the children rarely obey to order of safety, the girls were more respecting to order than boys and statistically significant between gender p< .01, while if a risky condition had happened younger child will ask for help more than the older, 42% of girls always will ask for help to 33% for boys and statistically significant between gender p< .01. it found decreasing in reporting the dangerous conditions with increasing in ages as 72% 61% 53% at seven, eight and nine years old respectively, when child plays in public space alone 43% considered as extremely risky and very risky, the highest at six years old,, the girls are more risky to play alone or with siblings or friend in all ages comparing to boys and statistically significant between gender p< .01, crossing the road alone the highest percentage scored at younger age with 68% extremely risky then decreases with older ages, as well as with gender girls more risky to cross roads alone than boys from 61% to 47% extremely risky respectively and statistically significant between gender p< .01 Conclusion, found that most of safety and health parameters as checked in the questionnaire were poorly followed. Child needs more awareness of the surroundings and safety practice to avoid hazardous conditions.