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Articles about home safety (0-50 of 11141)
- Experts On Fire Safety: Do Your Children Really Know What To Do When Your House Is On Fire?
By: Bill Driscoll | - Did you know what the most common thing children under the age of 10 do in case of a home fire? If you said hide, you are correct. It is an instinct for children to hide from the fire, just the same as many farm animals will not run out of a burning barn. That is their home and where they feel comfortable. Today, firefighters are trained to look under blankets, under beds and in closets for children, because they know they will want to hide when they are scared.
During a surve ...
Tags: home fires, home safety, home fire safety
- Three Deadly Misconceptions About House Fires That Can Kill You!
By: Bill Driscoll | - Most experts agree that, to one degree or another, we all have these misconceptions about home fires that represent the reasons we do not take action to adopt fire safety precautions. Taking action is the only way we can reduce or eliminate our chances of death or injury from this terrible killer and crippler. Learn these and save the lives of your family.
Misconception 1: It Will Not Happen To Me
Not believing a home fire will happen is why the U.S. has the highest ...
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- One Half Million Dogs And Cats Unnecessarily Killed In House Fires Each Year, All Preventable!
By: Bill Driscoll | - More than 1.7 million uncontrolled home fires occur annually in the US. The Fire Administration does not keep tally, but other groups have estimated that more than 500,000 pets are killed by house fires each year; even though smoke detectors were installed.
Our pets are more often than not an integral part of our family. For many, pets are the only family and represent a very important relationship. There are several things you can do to reduce the chances of losing your pet in a ...
Tags: home fires, home safety, smoke detectors, pet safety
- Will Your Children Wake Up To Your Smoke Alarms?
By: Bill Driscoll | - Certainly by now most Americans have heard of the problem of children not waking up to smoke alarms, but what have you done about it? Will your smoke detectors wake you? What should you do if you have a home fire?
Let me start with the bottom line first. If we are truly going to cure this problem, we must address the entire problem, not just react to small pieces that may make us feel as though we did something, but in reality will not change the results, such as making louder sm ...
Tags: home fires, home safety, smoke detectors, smoke alarms
- To Survive A Fire Today Requires New Thinking, And A Lot Quicker Action Plan
By: Bill Driscoll | - A fire is a fire right? What could be different in home fires now? It is not just about the quality of the smoke detectors that we use. It is the materials we have filled our homes with and the way we have made our homes more energy efficient that has created a whole new fire problem that requires a whole new way of thinking if we want to be sure to escape. Our home safety and our very survival depends on it!
30 years ago, the experts estimated that we had 17 minutes on average to ...
Tags: home fires, home safety, smoke detectors, smoke alarms
- Your Smoke Detectors Will Probably Not Work In Time!
By: Bill Driscoll | - I know that is not a very popular stance. Many officials say that type of comment is what makes people not trust their smoke detectors and may discourage them from installing them in their home. In the opinion of this author, that is very small thinking and really assumes that the average consumer is not capable of making the right decision when given the facts about home safety and home security.
Yes, it takes more time to give someone all the facts, but for the past 25 years ...
Tags: smoke detectors, home fires, home security, home safety
- Childproof Your Home For Peace Of Mind
By: SA HOME | - You'd never think of child-proofing your home unless you had kids. I've never had children of my own, but I've had my share of friends and relatives come over--and their kids got into everything, from my kitchen cabinets to bathroom shelves and storage. Some toddlers simply have to be put under the constant surveillance of cameras or listening devices.
Accidents in the home are the single-leading cause of death among young children between one and 14 years of age, another good reaso ...
Tags: safety, childproofing, home safety tips
- Your New Home: Making It Safe
By: Tim Ryan | - Now that youve found the perfect home for your family, its time to take a look into making sure that your family will enjoy their new home in safety. The majority of accidents that happen to people occur in the safety of your own home; its even easier to suffer some kind of accident when youre newly living in unfamiliar surroundings.
One of the most important types of safety equipment that your home should already have installed in it is smoke alarms. New homes may ...
Tags: home buying, home improvements, home maintenace, home safety, landscaping
- Mace Wireless Home Security System Review
By: Jim Wilkinson | - We all know how when we come across a product that really works well we are enthusiastic to tell others. Well, that is the case with the MACE Wireless Home Security System. I am sure there are other alarms that work as well but this one is impressive. The article describes my experience with installing this unit for a friend. I hope it helps you in your decision process of buying a home alarm system.
I had the opportunity to set up and install a MACE Wireless Home Security System re ...
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- 10 Easy Steps To Prevent A Home Burglary
By: Jim Wilkinson | - 1/ Make sure there are no shrubs or trees blocking the view of windows and doors.
When shrubs and trees block the view of windows and doors it gives a burglar a place to hide while they are trying to break into your home. Nobody passing by will be able to see them as they are attempting to break in.
2/ Install motion sensor lighting around the perimeter of your home.
Exterior lighting is one of the best defenses against a home break in at night. The ...
Tags: Home security, home safety, home alarms, home burglary protection
- Keeping Your Home & Family Safe With Detectors
By: Leslie Eskildsen | - Whether you've bought a brand new home or have purchased an older home for your family, it is important to make sure that you have a working system of detectors in your home to protect you from fire, smoke inhalation, and carbon monoxide and dioxide poisoning.
The most common type of detector used in homes is the smoke alarm/detector; upwards of ninty percent of homes in North America have smoke alarms in their home though not all of them may be in working condition due to dead or m ...
Tags: co2 detectors, home safety, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide, home improvements
- Improve Child Safety And Home Safety With This Basic Childproofing Checklist
By: R. Auspitz | - When your baby starts walking, the number of dangers multiplies and parents must pay even more attention. Bookshelves become hazardous and table knick knacks become the object of unquenchable curiosity. Even table cloths can become dangerous. Yes, a simple tablecloth can create unintended havoc when a toddler is involved. Here are is a checklist for parents to follow and implement before your baby becomes a walking toddler:
1. Use bolts or screws to fasten bookshelves to the wall. ...
Tags: child safety, childproofing a home, home safety, child proof
- When Caring For Parents Needs, Don't Forget The Home
By: Mike McCoy | - An issue that we will all probably face in our lives is caring for our parents as they age. Our parents cared for us when we were children and we should care for our parents as they face declining health and loss of independence. Eventually, as parents, we will come to rely on our children to assist us with our needs. The cycle of parents who cared for children needing that same care returned as the parents age has been with us from the beginning of civilization.
Caring for p ...
Tags: Senior Home Safety Network, Senior home safety inspections, Caring for parent Senior care services,
- 5 Theft Deterrents For Home And Property
By: Bryan Hough | - One way not to be robbed or burgled is the use of theft deterrents. Theft deterrents are not necessarily things that you buy but techniques that you employ that make you and what you own undesirable targets for criminals. Here are five theft deterrents that may work for you.
There are a few things to know about criminals. Most are not like you see on movies like "The Italian Job" or "Ocean's 11." They will not pursue your belongings relentlessly that is, unless you have several mi ...
Tags: theft deterrents, home safety, personal security
- Protect Your Home From Curling Iron Fires
By: Anthony Peck | - When you think of a curling iron you probably don't think of it as a tool of destruction, but the havoc it is capable of wrecking on your home if you're not very, very careful is nothing short of awe inspiring. Think about it-do you really want to have to admit to your homeowners insurance provider that your curling iron caused $150,000 worth of damages? Probably not. No one really does. That's why it's so important that you know how to protect your home from curling iron fires.
T ...
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- Home Safety: Doors And Windows
By: The Man | - OK, I am going to start this series off by telling you a little story. This is something that happened roughly six months ago and I thought it would be wise to teach people about it so it doesn't happen to them.
About six months ago I was coming home from staying the night at my girlfriends house. When I pulled up into the driveway I noticed that my back door was propped open and the window next to it was perched up. Immediately I thought it might have been my little brot ...
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- Senior Care Services Now Include Home Inspections
By: Mike McCoy | - You may have come to the time in your life where you need to consider senior care services. You, your parents, grandparents or someone you care about have come to the age where they need assistance in daily living. Make sure you don't overlook the safety of the home when shopping for senior care services.
The top two premature killers of the elderly are medication errors and hazards in the home. Both are preventable, it just takes foresight. Home Health Agencies can take care ...
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- Picking An Alarms System For Home
By: Matt Chang | - In this world where crime ratios are increasing day by day, everyone wants security for his home and family. For this reason you go to market and search out the equipments available for security. Now you choose the one which fits into your need. This should be reliable for a long time and provide security satisfactorily to his family in future.
In order to provide you assistance in decision making here are a few points to be considered to select a security system. In this regard, ...
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- Is A Laser Home Security System Right For You?
By: Matt Chang | - Laser home security alarms generates beams of laser light. It can be fit approximately around the boundary of your homes and outer rooms. If it is put in boundaries of your home, the alarm can be put at a space far above the ground so that home border line is kept safe from intruders by means of sounding an alarm when the beam of light is gone through.
Laser home security perimeter alarms are tremendously expensive amongst home safety equipments readily available. They are well-k ...
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- Senior Home Safety Inspections Prevent Disaster
By: Mike McCoy | - Many families try to avoid placing their parents in long term care facilities even when the time comes that it seems like it is the right thing to do. However, there are many risks for the elderly living at home. The top two killers of seniors who don't live in a senior care facility are medication errors and hazards in the home. Senior home safety inspections can minimize the potential threats to your parents and grandparents.
As the baby boomer generation enters retirement, t ...
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- Aging In Place: An Old Concept Needs New Programs
By: Mike McCoy | - Aging in place is a fairly new name for an old concept. Essentially, it is enabling our aging citizens to live at home in their golden and twilight years. To them, there wasn't a name for it; it was just something you did. If your parents and grandparents reached retirement age or became disabled, they lived at home
Over the years, the idea of taking care of one's aging family members has fallen to the wayside, and the population of long term care residents increased dramatical ...
Tags: Senior Home Safety Network, Senior home safety inspections, Caring for parent Senior care services,
- Making Your Home More Secure With A Composite Door
By: Lawrence White | - Doors play an important role in increasing the value of the home, and people always go for pretty ones when buying a door. Doors are made from various types of materials such as plastic, wood, vinyl, and more.
With developments in technology, manufacturers have found better ways to create more functional and durable doors that not only add beauty to the home, but also make it strong and long-lasting. However, you should be aware of important factors to consider before buying one. ...
Tags: home improvement, home safety, composite doors
- Easy Home Security Tips For Ease Of Mind
By: Matt Chang | - Ask anybody about the home security measures they take whenever they are away from home for more than a day. Chances are, all the responses will not be the same and answers unique. The thing is, you will probably find that many people do nothing at all. And it is this that makes it easy for burglars to get into your home.
There are things you can do right now to get going. In reality, there are some thing you can implement and they don't take that much time. For instance, when you ...
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- Home Security For Piece Of Mind
By: Matt Chang | - Everyone loves being at home and a home should be considered your personal sanctuary. Make sure the home is the safest place, for you, your family and loved ones. You don't want to allow chaos from the outside world in, so make sure you set your home up to be safe.
The only things up to chance. Take the necessary precautions to make sure that you don't invite disaster. The first thing you should do about home safety is think about how a burglar would look at your own home. If ...
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- Safe Home For Crawling Babies - Making Home Safe For Babies & Toddlers
By: Elizabeth Hansen | - You prepared for baby by having working smoke and CO2 detectors throughout your home. Adequate heating and cooling was ensured for baby to be comfortable. Cribs, car seats, and toys were checked for safety. It is now four months later and baby is starting to scoot and crawl. Are you prepared for new hazards? Do you have stairs, cabinet doors, blinds, outlets, or pets? Mobility opens up a new world for baby and also many opportunities for injury.
Take a look at your environment fro ...
Tags: baby safety, baby clothing, home safety
- How To Prevent Fire Damage To Your Home
By: Aydan Corkern | - The way to prevent a fire or fires in your house is to watch what you are doing. A fire can be caused at any time whether it is by cooking, wiring, candles, matches, lighters, or something laying on a cord. Don't lay things on the floor like clothes, paper, plastic, or anything that can cause a fire in your home. Keep everything away from the plug-ins because that is a fire hazard, and it can cause your things to go up in flames. It can cause your house to start on fire, and it can burn to the g ...
Tags: water, fire, damage, restoration, house, home, safety
- Teaching Children About Fire Safety
By: Aydan Corkern | - In our everyday lives, we really need to make sure that our children understand the importance of fire safety at home or at school. It is important that these children be allowed to visit our fire stations and meet the firefighters that stay at some of these stations. They need to understand that these men put their lives on the line every time they answer the call to a fire. As we have hundreds of fire each and every day for many different causes, these guys are usually pretty busy. But they do ...
Tags: water, damage, restoration, fire, house, home, safety
- How To Prevent Damage To Your Home
By: Aydan Corkern | - If you live in a home that has some kind of damage in it, you might want to try to have it fixed as soon as possible as the longer it is allowed to hang around, the worse the damage will become. You will need to try to find some way to prevent some of the kinds of damage by making sure that certain conditions are not allowed to happen. You will need to install smoke detectors, fire alarms, fire extinguishers, and any of the other kinds of things that will help you to keep from having a fire or h ...
Tags: water, fire, damage, restoration, house, home, safety, remodeling, renovation
- Mold In Your Home - What To Do?
By: Empty Your Nest Professional Organizing | - Oh, Poor Moldy Me! Or The Canary in the Coal Mine Speaks
No need to hire a mold inspector. Just send me, Amy Gray, into any area you suspect of having mold, and I'll come back with an instant report. As in the form of a splitting headache.
I don't get headaches that often. So if one quick trip into a damp, moldy, basement turns me into a migraine case, imagine what it is doing to your health on a day to day basis.
Let's backtrack just a wee bit. What ...
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- Is Your Home Still Safe To Live In?
By: insurancework.ie | - It is an established fact that people rely on their homes as protection from the perils and dangers of the outside world. Home for them is the only place where they can fell relax and secure after long and tiring working day. As old tale says, there is no place like and better than home.
Obviously speaking, things are better done inside ones own place. Peace of mind and the feeling of safety in times of nostalgic moments are only experienced inside your home. People are safe en ...
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- Home Safety The First Frontier
By: Rem. | - Your home is a place of security and relief from the pressures of the outside world and most people feel relaxed upon entering their domicile. This is one of the contributing factors to statistics demonstrating that most accidents occur in the home and often by inattention to dangers. Home safety needs to be the first frontier to tackle in protecting yourself and your loved ones from accidents.
A very obvious source of danger in a house is the electrical system. Outlets for pow ...
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- Guns And Safety For The Home Owner
By: Rick Ramirez | - We know we have a great responsibility in protecting our family, our home, and our possessions. However, in this day and age, it is something that is becoming harder and harder to accomplish. With crime rates on the rise we have to continually find ways to provide this protection.
Here are a few things you can do to minimize the risk your home and family are faced with.
Install deadbolt lock mechanisms on your doors. When measuring for the appropriate sized loc ...
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- Is Your Home Hazardous To Your Childs Health?
By: Johnny Jenkins | - Your home more than any other place is probably where your child is likely to be injured. There are hazards in every room and hallway. Fortunately, most accidents to children in the home are preventable. As caregivers, we must know which hazards pose the most significant risk.
Electrical Sockets have always been a point of hazard in the home. This is especially true if there are small children present. An uncovered electrical socket invites trouble. You should always keep the soc ...
Tags: Home Safety, Child Safety, Child Protection
- How To Build A Home Camera System At Shoestring Budget
By: TomFred | - To own an home security surveillance system can be cheaper and more readily then ever before. You don't need to rely on the big company product, spending hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on a set of equipments that you are not familiar with. Build your own security surveillance system at home and watch almost everything you can from anywhere you want.
DVR, digital video recorder system, is the perfect way to build a computer and Internet based home surveillance system. A ...
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- Emergency Checklist
By: Leo Nov | - The list of actions below should be used to start your checklist, which includes items that should be prepared and checked off before a disaster strikes. Improve home safety and promote emergency preparedness by following this guide.
Smoke Alarm Installation
Smoke alarms should be installed on each level of your home, especially near bedrooms. You should always follow local codes and the manufacturer's instructions about installation and safety requirements. Sm ...
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- Why Your Home Needs A Home Security Video Camera
By: Matt Peters | - Have you ever wondered what makes shop owners identify shoplifters before they can leave the store? Those are video cameras. You can have your own home security video camera protect your home in much the same way as well. With a home security video camera, you can record all the evidence you will need if your house is burgled, for example, while you were away for a weekend.
Why Video?
Some people think that just because digital imaging is fast-becoming the trend ...
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- 24-hour A Day Protection With A Home Monitored Security System
By: Corbin Newlyn | - One of the top fears that everyone faces these days whenever leaving their house not only is the stigmatizing thought of a burglar breaking in, vandalizing and stealing valuables in The home as well as your lifetime's work, but the threat of bodily harm as well. In modern society security systems are no longer considered an option but are becoming more and more a necessity for the purposes of protecting and ensuring the safety of your family members at all times.
Different Kinds ...
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- Wireless Home Security Sytems Offer Amazing Freedom And Function
By: Sam Ellis | - Keeping your home secure with a wireless home security system sounds like a neat and easy way to protect your family. However, there are many affordable home security options and finding the best for you can be difficult. Consumers have recently considered the wireless systems to be the best home security systems on the market, but the word system speaks volumes. A wireless home security system consists of many components, some of which may be deemed unnecessary to keeping your home secure. Take ...
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- Taking The Easy Way Out Of Home Security
By: Johnny Jenkins | - Home security is one of the most important issues you will deal with in your life. It is very important to your safety and the safety of loved ones. You should not compromise on quality when securing your home.
Ensure your house is safe and well protected from burglars and thugs. These characters maybe staking out your home to make a fast buck by stealing. Teach your entire family to be security conscious.
You can raise security and safety conscious children. Pract ...
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- Planning For The Best Results No Matter What Curves Life May Bring Emergency And Safety Supplies We
By: Bob Zurn | - By Rick Pedley
It seems that recent times have given us so many reminders that we should all have at least the basic emergency and safety supplies in our homes and cars in the unfortunate event that we should ever need them. We've seen the disasters on television for some time now major earthquakes, 9/11, tsunamis, hurricanes. It's sad but true that there are not only Acts of God but also acts of man that can leave us isolated and waiting for help to arrive. In many cases, wit ...
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- Child Safety Versus Child Freedom - Treading The Fine Line
By: Kristi Hale | - The turn of the century has seen the human race step from the golden age of innocence into a world of fear and violence. We live in an uncertain world nowadays where there seems to be danger everywhere. Home invasions, bombs, terrorism, predators... even catching the subway seems fraught with danger.
So it's only natural if we feel less secure than we used to and it's understandable that we worry about our family, particularly our children. We worry about their vulnerability, how ...
Tags: child safety, home safety, internet safety, stranger danger
- When You Go On Vacation This Summer
By: Adam Walls | - Summertime is a very big time of year for vacations. The last thing on people's minds when they are vacationing on a cruise ship, an island, a beach or wherever your travels take you, is what is going on at home. Well, you should at least take care of your home before you leave to prevent a bad situation to come home to. For anybody who has had their house robbed they know that it is not a pleasant thing. Trust me, I have been there. So, in lieu of the situation I want to pass along some tips th ...
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