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Safety
Also called: Accident prevention
You can't remove all the safety hazards from your life, but you can reduce them. You can avoid major hazards and prepare for emergencies by taking the following steps:
- Keep emergency phone numbers by your telephones
- Make a first aid kit for your home
- Make a family emergency plan
- Install and maintain smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors
- Keep guns unloaded and locked up. Lock up the ammunition separately.
- Follow the directions carefully when using tools or equipment
Young children are especially at risk. Supervision is the best way to keep them safe. Childproofing the house can also help.
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Start Here
- Household Safety Checklists(Nemours Foundation)
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Overviews
- Home and Recreational Safety(National Safety Council)
- Home Safety Checklist: Safety by Room(Safe Kids Worldwide)
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Latest News
- Hot Tap Water May Pose Scalding Hazard(03/31/2013, HealthDay)
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Specific Conditions
- Gardening Health and Safety Tips(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Heating Safety(National Fire Protection Association) - PDF
- Home Electrical Safety Checklist(Consumer Product Safety Commission) - PDF
- Home Security Invest in It Now(National Crime Prevention Council) - PDF
- Lawnmower Safety(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
- Lightning Injury(American College of Emergency Physicians)
- Prevent Snow Shoveling and Snowblowing Injuries(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
- Protect Yourself from Violent Crime(National Crime Prevention Council)
- Safe Youth. Safe Schools.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Window Safety Tips(National Safety Council) - PDF
- Woods and Camping Safety for the Whole Family(Nemours Foundation)
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Related Issues
- CPSC Safety Guides(Consumer Product Safety Commission) - PDF
- Ladder Safety Guide(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
- Safety Tips for Being Handy in the Home(American College of Emergency Physicians)
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Health Check Tools
- Older Consumer Safety Test(Consumer Product Safety Commission)
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Videos
- Natural Gas Emergencies(Healthy Roads Media)
- Also available in Spanish
- When Lawn Mowers Attack(American Society of Plastic Surgeons)
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Journal Articles
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
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Organizations
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Children
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MedlinePlus: Child Safety(National Library of Medicine)
- Also available in Spanish
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MedlinePlus: Child Safety
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Teenagers
- Streetwise: The Way to Be(National Crime Prevention Council) - PDF
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Seniors
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Crime and Older People(National Institute on Aging)
- Safer Seniors(National Crime Prevention Council) - PDF
- Safety for Older Consumers: Home Safety Checklist(Consumer Product Safety Commission) - PDF
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Crime and Older People
Safety - Multiple Languages
