Home Safety Guide for Seniors: 50+ Points Checklist
The 52 checks below cover the five things that actually put older adults in hospital from their own homes: falls, fire, scalds, carbon monoxide , and the time spent on the floor afterwards. Every…
Home Safety
Make everyday living safer with guides to childproofing, senior home safety, fire prevention, carbon monoxide, and electric blankets.
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Electric Blanket Safety: Tips to Stay Warm Without Risks
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…
Home Fire Safety: Tips to Protect Your Family and Property
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…
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning | Safety Tips to Prevent at Home and Work
The single most useful thing to understand about carbon monoxide is that a home CO alarm and a workplace CO monitor are not the same device, and they do not protect you against the same thing. A…
What is Childproofing? Guide To Keep Your Home Safe for Kids
Childproofing is the deliberate redesign of a home so that the hazards a small child cannot understand are put beyond their reach, and so the ones that remain cannot injure them badly. That is the…