Promoting Home Safety

Safety Articles from State Farm Insurance
State Farm is one of this country's leading insurers. It is in their best interest, as well as your best interest, for you, your family, and your home to be safe and protected at all times. Click on Home Security and Safety or simply scroll almost to the bottom of the page and you will find several useful articles on home safety. These articles cover such topics as carbon monoxide alarms, smoke alarms, and security bars on windows. The article on window security bars is especially interesting and thought provoking, as it covers both the benefits and the real dangers to your family in times of fire that security bars can pose. Scroll down a bit further and you'll find several articles on Child Safety and further down yet are a series of articles on Home Security which includes articles on security alarm systems, how to protect yourself against home burglary, how to pick the right door lock and more. When one of the biggest insurance companies in the world talks about home security, it pays to listen.

NOAH Home Safety and Injury Prevention
Home safety tips and a wealth of tips and links that include tips on choking and suffocation, electricity tips, fall prevention, fire and burn tips, firework safety, firearms safety tips, lifting safety, poisoning prevention, animal and pet safety, camping safety, playground safety, pedestrian safety, school safety, sports safety, transportation safety, bicycle safety, scooter safety, rollerblading safety, motor vehicle safety and water safety. Children safety programs are also noted.

Electrical Safety Foundation International
The Electrical Safety Foundation International mission is to reduce electrically related deaths and injuries through vigilant public education. The organizations sites provides home safety materials addressing such items as conducting an electrical safety audit of your home. The site includes articles and links concerning audio safety tips, home electrical safety tips, home electrical safety quiz, and a home safety question and answer page. Here are the facts: According to statistics from the National Fire Protection Association and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, between 1994 and 1998 there was an average of 406,700 residential fires per year, approximately 69,000, or 17%, of which were related to electrical distribution or appliances and equipment. Another 42,700, or 10.5 % were related to heating and air conditioning systems. These combined to cause an average of 860 deaths, 4,785 injuries and nearly $1.3 billion in property damage annually. Additionally, 170 of the 440 total accidental electrocutions in 1999 in the U.S. were related to consumer products in and around the home, and approximately 8,700 people were treated for electric shock injuries related to consumer products in the U.S. in 2000.

Your Home Fire Safety Checklist
This Home Fire Safety Checklist was developed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), an independent regulatory agency of the U.S. Government. A home fire is one of the most devastating and potentially most tragic occurrences that a homeowner can face. This site contains a checklist of things that you can do to help reduce the chance of a fire in your home or, if a fire should strike, to increase the chances for you and your family to survive. The checklist includes sources of fire, such as wood stoves, recommendations for using wood stoves and kerosene heaters in the safest manner possible, the proper way to use electric heaters, a checklist of cooking equipment, such as gas stoves and electric ranges (did you know that there are approximately 400 deaths and 5,000 injuries each year from the improper use of cooking equipment?), a checklist on cigarette lighters and matches, a checklist of flammable materials in the home, and much more. By reading through this checklist the average homeowner will undoubtedly find ways to improve the fire safety of his home and improve the chances that he and his family will survive if the unthinkable should happen.