Home Safety Resources (03)

Safety from Thunderstorms and Tornados
This pages offers safety tips for tornados and thunderstorms. It says there are 2,000 storms on the earth's surface at any given time and lightening strikes the earth approximately 100 times a second. Safety tips are offered for learning to reduce your lightning risk through outdoor and home lightning safety. The best way to avoid lightning is not put yourself, family, and friends in danger in the first place. No one should be caught off guard by thunderstorms. Weather information is all around you. Know the lighting safety-warning program in your area, and use the 30/30 rule by counting seconds between lightning strikes. Staying away from water, open spaces and trees is also important, and safety tips for boaters and swimmers as well as hikers and golfers are included.

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.

Home Safety from the National AG Safety Database
Many of the 50 or so articles on this site are slanted toward farmers, but most articles apply equally as well to urban homes. Articles include such things as safe handling and preparation of ground meat and ground chicken, repairing leaky roof, assessing roof damage after a tornado, cleaning stovepipes and chimneys, creating fire safe zones around your home, electrical safety after a disaster, falls in the home, what to do in case of a fire, first aid kits, safe food storage and many, many more. Whether you live on a farm or in the middle of a big city, the information on this site could help save your life either before, during or after a natural disaster.