Home Safety Resources (05)
EPA Safe Home Guide
Website provides tips for home safety, avoiding potential risks, and preventing pollution by recycling and conserving water and energy. Includes actions you can take to reduce lead in drinking water, using conservation to have cleaner water, drinking water information for health, information about private drinking water wells, tap water safety, asbestos, indoor air quality, flood cleanup, reducing radon risks, secondhand smoke, pesticide, bio-pesticides, ten tips to protect children from pesticide and lead poisonings, ultraviolet radiation, household cleanser safety, recycling, buying an energy efficient home, heating and cooling systems, natural landscaping, hidden hazards of backyard burning, and composting.
Home and Fire Safety
Site includes links to articles about home safety and fire safety including, how to install a door chain lock, how to prevent burglary, do it yourself home security, choosing a deadbolt lock, home safety devices, neighborhood watches and other home security tips. Fire safety section includes candle safety, fire safety tips, fire prevention plans, avoiding chimney fires, wild fire safety in the home, smoke detectors and fire proofing your home. The environmental safety section includes information about avoidable carbon monoxide poisoning, living safely with lead paint hazards, water well pumping test and lead poisoning information.
Safety Publications
Iowa State University provides this list of resources and safety tips about the following farm safety topics: chemical safety, unveiling hidden farm hazards, protecting yourself from farm dust, diseases caused by inhalation of mold and dust, silo gas safety, using aprons for farm protection, reducing farm accident risks, severe weather tips for farms and ensuring drinking water safety. Home safety publications include head lice safety, healthy air at home, safety with strings, preventing burns on hot metal playground equipment, and ten steps towards a safer playground.
Fire Safety Planning
This website has disaster preparedness tips, which including making your home fire safe. Tips include installing a fire alarm, testing your fire alarm, purchasing a fire extinguisher, planning fire escape routes, practicing fire escape routes, escaping from a fire safely and having a second escape if smoke and flames block your first exit preference. Fire is one of the most common disasters. Fire causes more deaths than any other type of disaster. But if fire doesn't have to be deadly if you have early warning from a smoke detector any everyone in your family knows how to escape calmly.
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