BeSeatSmart provides child passenger safety seats, hands on help, advice, consultations, presentations, training, materials and support to residents of Vermont.
BeSeatSmart provides best practice advice as given and sourced by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
This is done through annual training of new technicians, yearly training of existing technicians, creating and supporting fitting stations, holding open-to-the-public inspections, a telephone hot-line for all things CPS (Child Passenger Safety) related, a website, hands on help for children with special medical needs, displays at public events and media campaigns, and distribution of low-cost car seats to children in need and at risk.
Children will remain in a rear facing that is not installed in front of an active airbag until the following two milestones have been passed: • The child is one year of age
• The child can pass the 5-step test[6] to get out of a booster[7] Best practice, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics[1] and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,[8] recommendations as currently followed by BeSeatSmart are as follows: Children under age 13 should remain in the back seat.