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Mia Collins is a writer at OSHE Blog covering fire safety, child safety, travel safety, and home safety. She writes practical guides to help families and travelers stay safe.
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Six weeks of an empty school is not a pause in the duty holder's obligations. It is the specific event most of those obligations were written to control. Water sits still in pipework, local exhaust…
Every workplace I have ever inspected already contained all three sides of the fire triangle. Heat, fuel and oxygen were all present, all the time. That is normal, and it is the point most fire…
An electric blanket presents two separate hazards, and almost every safety list you will read treats them as one. The first is ignition — a damaged element, cord or controller starting a fire in a…
You have about three minutes. That is the number every decision in this article is built around, and it comes from full-scale burn testing by UL's Fire Safety Research Institute , which found the…
Most birthday party injuries are grazed knees, a bumped head on a table corner, someone crying over a broken toy. Those are not the ones to plan for. A small number of party hazards can kill a child…
Most young children who drown in a home pool were never meant to be in the water. They were inside the house a minute earlier. Nobody was swimming. The gate looked shut. That is the pattern behind…
Fire safety for children rests on one assumption most parents have never been told: your sleeping child will probably not wake up when the smoke alarm sounds. In a study of 188 children aged five to…
The last hotel I stayed in, I counted eleven doors from my room to the nearest exit stair and seven in the other direction. It took under a minute. I do it every time, because the exit sign I can see…
"Primary care nurse" is a description of where someone works, not a protected job title, and it covers at least three different jobs with three different legal scopes. In the United States it usually…
The fire tetrahedron is the four-sided model of combustion: fuel, heat, an oxidising agent, and an uninhibited chemical chain reaction . Remove any one face and flaming combustion stops. It replaced…
A fire drill is a rehearsed evacuation of a building, started by the alarm and run as though the fire were real, to test whether the evacuation strategy actually works with the people and conditions…
