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Household Safety Checklist
In order to protect you and your family, conduct a thorough safety check of every room in your home on a regular basis. ...
Source: St. Louis Children's Hospital
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Would Your Family Know What to Do In a Fire?
October 11, 2001 Residential fires claim the lives of 3,600 people each year and injure 18,500 more. In fact, the ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Childproofing Your Home - 12 Safety Devices to Protect Your Children
About 2-1/2 million children are injured or killed by hazards in the home each year. The good news is that many of ...
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Preventing Poisoning: Safety Tips for You, Your Family, and Friends
Children under the age of six are at the greatest risk for unintentional poisoning.Drugs and Medicines Follow ...
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What Firefighters Want You to Know About Fire Prevention
Firefighters often come to schools to talk to kids. Here is their advice to parents on how to keep families safe.
Source: Education.com
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Household Safety: Preventing Drowning
Water safety is important at any age, but is especially crucial if you have babies or toddlers in your home. Drowning ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Household Safety: Preventing Burns, Shocks, and Fires
From overly hot faucets to tipped-over coffee cups, burns are a potential hazard in every home. In fact, burns — ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Electrical Safety Checklist
Use the following checklist as aguide to help keep your family safefrom electrical dangers at home. Electrical Safety ...
Source: Home Safety Council
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Think Safe Be Safe: Swimming Safety
According to The State of Home Safety in America™ report, drowning is the fifth leading cause of unintentional ...
Source: Home Safety Council
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Dangers of Third-hand Smoke Can Be Minimized With In-Home Smoking Bans
Everybody knows that secondhand smoke is harmful to the health of nonsmokers, so many parents who light up will open ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Gun Safety
Guns are in more than one third of all U.S. households, so they're a very real danger to children, whether you own one ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Lead Scare: What Parents Should Know
Looking around at the toys your child has scattered across the living room floor, you may not realize that 8 out of 10 ...
Source: Education.com
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Improving Air Quality to Reduce Illness
Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) is consistently listed as one of the top five environmental risks by the Environmental ...
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Is Your Child's Toothpaste Toxic?
According to a new investigation by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), children are routinely exposed to chemicals ...
Source: Education.com
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Fire Safety Hazard Hunt
Use this checklist to go on a fire safety hazard hunt with your child.Prevent Fires!In the Kitchen Keep anything ...
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Building Good Habits and Safe Surroundings
A child does not have to eat paint chips to get lead poisoning. It is more common for a child to swallow lead dust or ...
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Ten Things You Can Do To “Get The Lead Out”
Have your child tested for lead with a blood test during a regular pediatric visit. Children should be tested at about ...
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Finding Lead Hazards in Your Home
Changes in the law have greatly reduced the amount of lead in our homes and in the air today. But it is important to...
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Making Your Home Safe for Your Child
It is important to know how your child will be growing and acting at this age for you to know how to make your home...
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Think Safe Be Safe: Fire Prevention Tips
According to the Home Safety Council’s State of Home Safety in America™ Report, fires and burns are the third...
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Holiday Fire Safety
A Season for Sharing in Fire Safety Each year fires occurring during the holiday season injure 2,600 individuals and...
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Source: The Nemours Foundation
