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Home Safety Tips
Lawn and Garden Safety Tips
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Is your home safe for your family? Follow these tips from the Home Safety Council to protect the people you love!
Home Safety Tips
 Prevent Falls
• Install grab bars in the tub and shower. Use non-slip mats.
• Have bright lights over stairs and steps and on landings. Keep stairs clear of clutter.
Prevent Poisonings
• Keep cleaners, medications and beauty products in a place where children can’t reach them. Use child safety locks.
• For Poison Help call 1-800-222-1222. Call if you need help or want information about poisons. Call 9-1-1 if someone needs to go to the hospital right away.
Prevent Fires and Burns
• Have working smoke alarms and hold fire drills. If you build a new home, install fire sprinklers.
• Stay by the stove when cooking, especially when you are frying food.
• Keep your hot water at 120˚F degrees to prevent burns.
• Use back burners and turn pot handles toward the back of your stove.
• On the road, use a travel mug for hot drinks.
Prevent Choking and Suffocation
• Things that can fit through a toilet paper tube can cause a young child to choke. Keep coins, latex balloons and hard round foods, such as peanuts and hard candy where children cannot see or touch them.
• Place babies to sleep on their backs, alone in their crib. Don’t put pillows, blankets, comforters or toys in cribs. These things can sometimes keep a baby from breathing.
• When your children are in or near water, watch them very carefully. Stay close enough to reach out and touch them. This includes bathtubs, toilets, pools and spas—even buckets of water.
Lawn and Garden Home Safety Tips
As the weather becomes warmer and days are longer, we spend as much time as we can outdoors enjoying our backyards. Many of us tackle do-it-yourself projects and others are happy just being outside. But, to be safe, it is important to remember the following safety tips when doing outside jobs, especially if you have children:
 • Keep children inside the house or well away from the area you are mowing.
• Before you mow, check the area for broken sticks, stones, toys and anything else that could shoot out from under the mower or damage the blade.
• Wear goggles and hearing protection.
• Never reach under the mower unless it is turned off and the blade has completely stopped turning.
• If you run out of gas, stop and let the engine cool down before you add more. Gasoline vapors can easily catch on fire.
• Read the labels of things you use for your lawn and garden. If you see the words "Caution," "Warning," "Danger," "Poison," or "Keep Out of Reach of Children," these products can be dangerous for children. Store them in a place with a lock.
• When using a chain saw, make certain it is equipped with an anti-kickback chain and is well sharpened.
• Pick up all garden tools such as rakes, spades, forks, pruning clippers, files and metal plant stakes when not in use.
www.homesafetycouncil.org
"Our life is frittered away by detail…Simplify, simplify."
—Henry David Thoreau
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