Resources
Discover helpful materials on health and safety. Here you’ll find useful links, downloads, and tools to support you in everyday life or at work. Easily accessible, up-to-date, and practical – your central hub for valuable information.
Useful Links
Here you find links to carefully selected organisations and companies we can recommend for the services, products or information they provide.
Rescue & Emergency Services in Switzerland
112 – European emergency number
144 – Emergency medical service EMS/ambulance
117 – Police
118 – Fire services
145 – Tox Info Suisse/Poison Control Centre
1414 – REGA, air rescue
1415 – Air-Glacier, air rescue
144 – Air Zermatt, air rescue
140 – Break-down service
143 – Dargebotene Hand, Crisis Line – mental health support
147 – Children & Youth Emergency Line – German only
163 – Road condition
187 – Avalanche bulletin
0848 35 345 55 – Parents’ Emergency Line
0800 211 222 – Animal Rescue Service
More numbers are listed on notfallnummern.ch.
Safety Products & Services
Excel Security Solutions offer “Life Skills” workshops on safety, awareness and self-defence for children, adolescents, and adults, including gap year preparation and courses for girls and women.
Fun Family Products
Good ID! sells fun and practical products for children and parents.
Family Counselling
LilyBee Christine Bliven studied clinical psychology with a focus on early childhood mental health, is a Babywearing Consultant and a Birth and Bereavement Doula and offers support for pregnancy and parenthood in Zürich. I now run my First Aid on Children courses for parents in the LilyBee location in Zürich.
Milk & Motherhood Johanna is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), teacher, research assistant and writer and if you are in search for lactation support, she is your go-to consultant.
Karin Hagelin Emotional Resilience Coach offers grief counselling, life crisis and stress management coaching. Karin also runs EFT Tapping workshops.
Nurture Hub Cassie Meyer is a Early Years Development Specialist and provides support and advice to international families through workshops, consultancy and classes for young children in Lucerne, Zug and Zurich. She also offers phonics group classes and indivdual English tuition from 4 years.
Newborn Mums Angie Borzychowski, PhD is a Perinatal Educator, Breastfeeding Counsellor and Group Facilitator and offers ante- and postnatal support and “Starting Solids” workshops
Prince New Life Janet Prince is a midwife, lactation consultant, and ante/post-natal counsellor and comes highly recommended.
Information for Families
Rockmybaby® Switzerland is a franchise of the international nanny and babysitting agency providing Nannies, AuPairs, Housekeepers and Babysitters to families across Switzerland.
ch.ch is the online presence of the Swiss authorities and available in English. The link will take you directly to the very helpful and informational page regarding pregnancy and birth – everything you need to know about registering your newborn, health insurance and much more.
care 4 kids provides babysitters and nannies in the city of Zürich, the right , left and lower Lakeside and in Zürcher Unter- and Oberland, including emergency services.
bfu – Kinder im Auto is a page by the bfu (Swiss Council for Accident Prevention) with the regulations and recommendations how children need to be secured in car seats in Switzerland.
Driving & Swiss Driver’s License
Führerausweise provides general information about obtaining a driver’s license in Switzerland (not canton specific).
Road Traffic Authorities in Switzerland has links to all road traffic authorities in Switzerland.
Umschrieb ausländischer Führerausweise Strassenverkehrsamt Kanton Baselland has information, in German only, about converting a foreign license obtained during a stay abroad (exchange student- or university programme).
Der Schweizer Fahrlehrervergleich lets you search for driving instructors and driving schools by the services they provided, including an instructing language search option.
Fahrschule Müller also offers the mandatory “Verkehrskunde-Unterricht” (traffic awareness or traffic or danger sensitisation course) in English near Zurich Stadelhofen and in Oerlikon, Zürich.
2-Phasen.ch is a website with all information required to learn about the mandatory further education courses (WAB) required before converting a temporary license into a permanent license (German, French and Italian only)
TCS Suisse has information about the WAB courses (in French called Formation en deux phases) on their website.
Reiseziele – Travel Destinations The website of the Swiss Touring Club lists mandatory requirements for within the car when travelling abroad (German, French and Italian).
Providers of WAB courses in English
Verkehrszentrum Tuggen AG is located in Tuggen, SZ (courses offered SZ and SG) and offers the WAB courses in German and English.
Downloads
Here you find useful and informative documents.
Driving & Driver’s license information
- 10 Steps to a Swiss Driver’s License
- Der Weg Zum Schweizer Führerschein – How to get a Swiss Driver’s License (German Only)
- How to convert a non-Swiss driver’s license to a Swiss driver’s license
- Application form conversion of a foreign driver’s license to a Swiss driver’s license
- Application form learner’s license ZH
- Application form learner’s license SZ
- Application form learner’s license ZG
- Application form to complete driving test outside canton Zug
- AA European travel advice – compulsory equipment (external file)
Blocking car registration information
Recommendation for Content of a First Aid
Information for Parents
- A Parent’s Guide to Water Safety Information by the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Information for parents – legal aspects of employing a babysitter in Switzerland
- Swiss Society of Paediatrics – Introducing Foods To Babies summarises recommendations of paediatricians about introduction of different foods to infants and young toddlers.
- Emergency Information Sheet for Families