Button battery resources

Help us spread the word about the dangers of button batteries by using and sharing these free downloadable educational resources, images and videos.

Please download and use our copyright-free button battery photos for your own communications. Most stock photos are of smaller, less dangerous button batteries. Credit: Child Accident Prevention Trust.

(Click on the photo below to open in Flickr and then click the download symbol to save the image)

Access our full playlist of button battery video content on Youtube.

• Button Batteries: Where are yours? This poster prompts parents to search for button batteries in their own homes.
• Our dual-purpose flashcard and session plan is designed to help you run an engaging workshop with parents. With a visual aid, workshop outline and safety facts and tips to share.
• This hard-hitting flyer, available in English and Welsh, explains the risks and offers safety tips and emergency advice.
• Our button batteries fact sheet provides essential advice about the risks to children, where to look for button batteries and what to do in an emergency. Download and share.
• We’ve also translated our fact sheet into 17 community languages: Albanian; Amharic; Arabic; Bengali; Bulgarian; Cantonese; Dari; Mandarin; Pashto; Polish; Punjabi; Romanian; Somali; Tigrinya; Turkish; Ukrainian, Urdu.
• Watch the free recording of our webinar on the dangers of button batteries to learn why they are so dangerous, where they can be found and what to do if you suspect a child has swallowed one.

These resources, produced by the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), are a helpful reminder about keeping children safe from button batteries and can easily be shared.

Download and share our illustration of a house and all the button batteries you can find in it, plus cut-outs of the different rooms.