Your home is a place where you want to feel safe and relaxed, a place where you can forget about all the stress of daily life.You should then take every step to ensure that you and your family are indeed as safe as you imagine from accidental injury.
If you have children you obviously want to be even more vigilant about safety in the home.Millions of children die each year due to accidents in the home, some of these deaths may have been prevented by doing simple things like installing a net over a swimming pool.
The majority of accidental deaths and injury are due to falls in the home, drowning, poisoning and fire.Here are some tips on how to prevent such accidents.
1.Never leave young children or anyone unable to swim unsupervised near a pool. 2.Install a pool net. 3.Install and maintain smoke detectors in the home. 4.Have a fire extinguisher in the home. 5.Ensure children wear a bicycle helmet whenever they ride their bike. 6.Make sure any dangerous chemicals have childproof lids, are stored out of reach of children and are not stored in containers children may think contain cool drink, like a 2l cool drink bottle.
All of these tips may reduce your families chance of having a serious accident in your home.
Spot on discussion of safety in the home – thanks for the tips, this should form part of every family’s planning even before a baby is born!