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Safety Tips at Home to Protect You and Keep Your Home Safe

By Jason Lee
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Keeping your home safe is often a simple matter of common sense and attentiveness—having fire extinguishers readily available and keeping harmful chemicals out of reach of children, for instance.

However, there are many perils to your safety at home that are less obvious—like carbon monoxide gas and radon. The big question now becomes how can you acquaint yourself with some commonsense safety tips at home to protect yourself and your home.

Well, let’s look at the Safety Tips that would go a long way to protect you and keep your home safe:

  • With your family, develop, discuss, and practice an emergency evacuation plan in case of fire. Make sure everyone has at least two routes for exiting the house, in case one route is blocked.
  • Install smoke alarms throughout the home, and install at least one fire extinguisher, preferably in the kitchen.
  • If you use a wood-burning stove or any other type of supplemental heat (especially kerosene or electric), take special precautions, because these units are notorious for starting fires.
  • Do not overload an electrical outlet. A cheap multiplug adapter, with four or five cords plugged into it, is a hazard. Instead, install a new outlet or purchase a power strip with its own breaker designed to handle a number of plugs.
  • Replace or repair any frayed or damaged wires. Don’t use a thin household-type extension cord for a heavy appliance. If the cord gets warm when in use, it is unsafe.
  • If a circuit often overloads so you need to flip the breaker or change the fuse, call an electrician to fix the problem.
  • Don’t use a lightbulb of a higher wattage than is recommended for the light fixture or lamp. If you do, it will overheat. In a closet or utility space, make sure you don’t have a bare lightbulb within a foot of clothing or other flammable objects.
  • Have your furnace or boiler checked yearly, both to ensure that it is burning safely and to make sure it does not produce carbon monoxide. Place carbon monoxide detectors in at least two places in your home.
  • Be aware of dangers specific to your locale and your type of home construction. For example, an older home may have asbestos pipe insulation, or paint that contains lead. Radon is a problem in some areas, and some fairly new homes may be in danger of developing mold or mildew.
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