Safe at Home
Our home is our family's safe haven.It's the place we return to each evening, leaving workday worries - and the outside world - behind once we secure the front door. While our walls provide a safe refuge within which we can weather the storms of daily life, ensuring our family's physical safety requires some extra precautions. These include: creating a first-aid kit and a disaster-survival kit, installing detectors to alert you to fire and other hazards, securing door and windows against thieves, and battening down the hatches in anticipation of Mother Nature's fury. "Safe at Home" Stories10 Steps to Securing Your Home Against Intruders Whether your home is humble or palatial, there's probably something inside it of interest to thieves. These 10 tips can help you keep what's inside your home safe.February Home Checklist The monthly home checklist will help secure your home's systems and surfaces are safe. Fire Preparedness for Families How to prepare your family in the event that there is a fire at home. Lock Talk Your home's locks should be solid - and your door needs a deadbolt, too. Here are the details you'll need to secure your home. Asbestos and Lead: What You Need to Know These tips will help you determine whether your home is at risk of exposing your family to asbestos or lead. What You Need to Know About Radon Gas Is your home secure against the potential threat of radon gas? Find out here. Home Security Checklist The essential checklist for home security. Disaster Preparedness How to prepare your home and your family against natural disasters. Prepare Your Home for Earthquakes We've heard "the big one" is due soon. (Whatever "soon" means.) So why not be on the safe side - your dishes will thank you - and prepare for it now? These easy earthquake-safe-home tips can help. Create a Fire-Safe Home Fires are among the most common disasters to befall us at home. These tips will help you secure your home and your family against a devastating blaze. Creating a Flood-Safe Home If you live in an area prone to floods, make sure to include these water-survival safety essentials in your family's first-aid or disaster-preparedness kit. Here's how to prepare your home and your family. Tips for a Hurricane- and Tornado-Safe Home Whipping winds and rain - the effects of a hurricane or tornado can be devastating. Here's how to protect your home. Fireplace Safety Tips Keeping the homefires burning safely requires a bit more than throwing a log or three in the hearth along with some kindling and setting it ablaze. These tips will keep you - and your home - safe. 10 Steps to a Safer Home Ensure your family - and everyone who enters your home - is as safe as possible inside with these 10 simple tips. Easily Child-Proof Your Home Here's how to keep little fingers and toes - and other appendages - safe at home. Preventing Household Accidents Most accidents happen at home. These simple tips will help keep your home from living up to this adage. How to Keep Important Home Records Safe at Home Birth certificates and licenses are just a few of the important papers we keep in our homes. Here's how to keep them safe inside. Preventing Common Kitchen and Bathroom Accidents Sharp items and gallons of water are just two of the potential hazards in your home's two most dangerous rooms. These tips will help ensure the kitchen and bathrooms are as safe as possible. Your Home Safety Toolkit Make sure your home toolkit includes essential home safety and security items. 10 Backyard Safety Rules for Kids Ten essential outdoor safety rules for kids playing on the patio or in the backyard. Preventing Zoonotic Diseases Kids and pets are a natural. Unfortunately, so are pet-borne diseases that can be transmitted to two-legged family members doing litter-box or pooper-scooping chores. Ensure everyone's safety by following these important rules. Safely Rid Your Home of Fleas Fleas. Ick. Just writing that makes me itch. But kids and fleas? It's a tough combination to combat the bugs and keep the kids safe. Try these less-toxic solutions to flea infestation.  Custom Search |
Securing Your Home
Against Intruders
Keep your home safe and secure from intruders with these
essential safety tips.
Preventing Household Accidents
Ensure a safe home by putting these
essential tips
into play.
February Home Checklist
Keep your home safe and its various systems running smoothly this month with the February Home Checklist.