Home Safety A Guide To Common Hazards Around The Home

According to the Oxford English dictionary the meaning of 'safety' is the condition of being protected or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury.Safety at home (indoor and outdoor) aims at reducing risks which may cause serious injury. It is our intention to protect our family and ourselves from hazard and risk or injury. Serious injury could happen anywhere you are present if you are not careful. So it is wise to look at safety as a whole. It is the objective of this book to reduce or eliminate risk at home whether indoor or outdoor.Tips will be given to reduce or eliminate the risks associated. Accidents anywhere can be controlled if you take positive steps to avoid the accidents from happening. You can prevent the accident from happening if you are aware of the safety principles. Safety awareness is important and if you stick by the safety tips given in this book you can avoid accidents from happening.This book serves as a guide to you who might not be aware of hazards which might be presents anywhere you are at. It serves as safety awareness information. By identifying hazards you should know how to tackle the risks that come with it. It is meant for the book for easy reading and not burdens you with terms which are complex. For more in depth study on safety you should consult safety consultants and organizations which focus on safety.The arrangement of this book is easy to follow. Safety tips will be given in each section. This book is divided into three sections. Section I deals solely on safety at home. A detail discussion on safety at home will be laid out. In section II, a discussion of indoor and outdoor safety will be looked into. In section III, a detail discussion on safety on the road will be laid out. This book aims at giving you guides on how to stay safe wherever you are at, whether you are indoor or outdoor.

Every year over 2.7 million children under the age of 15 are involved in accidents in and around their home that require emergency room care. Many more are treated by parents, guardians and family doctors. In fact, accidents are the most common cause of death for children over the age of one. Unfortunately, most all of these accidents could have been prevented, especially around the house. What hidden dangers are in your home today? What do you need to be aware of in protecting your children from serious injury in your house? This book is designed to help you avoid the potential dangers and risks in the home that can be hazardous to your baby, toddler or child. You'll know what to look for, what areas to address right now and how to make sure you are providing the safest home possible for your children. So let's get started!

Contrary to the perception that the home is a safe environment, a person is ten times more likely to sustain a serious injury or die at home as a result of an accident than in the course of their employment. This book will help homeowners combat those odds by providing information adapted from proven techniques used by safety professionals. Filled with ancedotal descriptions and examples, the book offers much more than “safety tips” as it educates the homeowner in how to control risk through hazard identification. Information is concisely organized, uniformly formatted, and supported by high quality images. Chapter topics include fall hazards (roofs, ladders, stairs, etc.), electrical safety, fire prevention, hand and power tool safety, emergency planning, and others. Added value can be found in the self-inspection forms or “cheat-sheets” located at the end of each chapter that the reader can copy to complete their own home safety audit. A collection of simple usable safety techniques directed specifically to homeowners like this does not currently exist. The target audience is the general public with sales offered through book retail stores, building material suppliers (i.e. Home Depot) and possibly homeowner insurance companies. Chapter sponsorship opportunities are being pursued through featured products, i.e. “This chapter on ladder safety brought to you by Werner Ladders,” “This chapter on power tool safety brought to you by DeWalt,” etc., and supporting product imagery for these chapters would feature those manufacturers’ products. There is a statistical gap between what we think we know and what we actually know about home safety. Home safety accidents disable more than 12 million people in the home every year and are the fifth leading cause of death. Forty-five percent of all unintentional deaths occur in and around the home environment, claiming the lives of children, aging parents, spouses, partners, and friends making the home environment one of the most hazardous environments we inhabit. But how can we expect to protect ourselves and the ones we love if we aren't even aware there is a problem? Hannan says 75% of all unintentional injuries and deaths in the home hinge on our behavior, more specifically, on the decisions we make. And the first and most important home safety decision we should make is to improve our hazard recognition skills and become more safety conscious. Homeowner's can't rely on product recalls or state and federal agencies to keep them and their loved ones safe in the home. Unlike other safety campaigns seen in our communities, the policing and protection of our home environment depends entirely on the homeowner. This book offers simple techniques to raise home-safety awareness and improve our abilities to recognize hazards, correct hazards and prevent unintentional accidents from occurring in the home. Each chapter of has high quality images to illustrate safety procedures; identifies problems and hazards in the home; recommends safety practices to assist homeowners in identifying hazards; gives action items for proactive prevention of accidents; has a safety inspection checklist allowing homeowners to be thorough and organized in their approach to home safety; and lists a reference section providing links and other resources for additional related safety information.

Risky Roo the Kangaroo is always getting hurt, but a day with his friend Hayden may help turn it all around. Putting on his safety gear and magical badge, Hayden teaches Risky how to avoid some scary situations. Will you take the Safety Pledge with Risky Roo? Not So Risky Roo is a full color illustrated children's book written by a safety professional who is also a parent. Using simple terms geared for young readers, this book tackles the top ten hazards around your home that too often lead to emergency room visits. Risky and Hayden's safety lesson adventure provides a creative, fear-free way to educate through positive interaction between child and parent.

Read Safety Around the House to learn about common dangers at home. Find out which household items may be harmful and how to use household products safely. Learn about the risks of misusing household products, what to do when you find a gun, and how to react in an emergency. Book jacket.

The old saying "Home is Where the Heart Is" might still be true. But federal studies about "home life" show that literally millions of homes also have HIDDEN HAZARDS. The existence of house-related hazards are even more concerning for loved ones. Your children, older family members and visitors, and anyone suffering from the many chronic illnesses are vulnerable to the daily risk when faced with common occurrences of mold, dust, toxins from lead, and old imbedded asbestos. Even everyday cleaning chemicals, and silent and odorless carbon monoxide and radon pose health risks if not effectively treated and kept under control. Think about these startling statistics. Could your home be a silent hazard when you thought it was a safe haven? 24 million homes have significant lead-based paint hazards 18,000 deaths related to injuries occur annually in U.S. homes 6.8 million homes contain radon exposures above the current EPA action level

According to research compiled by the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Security Council, unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death in children ages 19 and younger. In fact, more than 3.4 million children experience a household injury each year, and 2,300 children under the age 15 will die from these unintentional injuries. The most common causes of in-home injury to children include:* Falls* Poisoning* Choking* Suffocation* Drowning* Fire and Burns* Improperly Stored FirearmsSadly, many of these tragic and life-altering accidents could have easily been prevented by implementing a few simple, proactive safety precautions.At Bonnie, keeping families safe is our highest priority. We created this guide to serve as a comprehensive yet practical resource for parents, grandparents, and anyone charged with caring for children. In it, you will find room-by-room safety instructions, including easy-to-use checklists to help make creating a safer home environment as simple and straightforward as possible.We've also separated the book into easy-to-follow sections, such as general home safety, safety tips by age, and home safety by risk category. Feel free to go through the book section by section, or if you'd prefer, simply link to the area that is most relevant to you. We sincerely hope this guide will help to protect your little one and ensure that your home remains a safe, comfortable, and accident-free zone. So, without further ado, let's dive in and get your home kid-ready!