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ABSTRACT Prevention of toddler home accident depend upon a reciprocal relationship between protection and education related to age infants need to be totally protected from home accident, whereas toddlers through education require increasingly less parental protection. Safe behaviour is a learned behaviour gradually acquired in a step by step process with increasing age and experience. The aim of study was to 1. To assess the knowledge level of mothers regarding prevention of home accidents. 2.To associate the knowledge of mothers with selected demographic variables. 3.To develop the information booklet regarding prevention of home accidents. Methods: The research approach adopted for the study was descriptive research approach. The research design adopted for the study was non-experimental research design. non-probability convenience sampling technique was used. The data was collected through the tool which is prepared by the investigator. The sample consists of the 60 mothers. Collected data analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics in terms of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi - square test. Results: The finding show that majority of mothers having more knowledge (mean percentage 61.85%) in the area of management and health education of home accidents, 60.05% in the area of introduction and definition of home accidents, 59% in the area of cases and types of home accidents, 48.78% in the area of prevention and management of home accidents. The overall knowledge mean percentage was 55.3% ?The results showed that there is significant association between knowledge of mothers regarding prevention of home accidents and demographic variables- education status, occupation, economic status. Conclusion: The study revealed that was overall mean knowledge score obtained by the mothers was 16.51and median was 14 with standard deviation 6.03 and the mean percentage was 55.03%. So, this indicates that mothers have some knowledge regarding prevention of home accidents.