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Answer:
Preventing accidents in the home
Advice and tips
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Unfortunately your home is the place where accidents are most likely to occur. Everyone should be aware of the dangers in the home so that accidents can be avoided.
The purpose of this information sheet is to raise awareness of the type of accidents that may occur in the home and what steps you can take to prevent them.
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Fire Safety
Electrical Safety
Heating and Cooking
Safety Glass
Safety with Medicines and Cleaners
DIY and Garden Safety
Fire safety
Fires can start suddenly and spread quickly, damaging your home and furniture and putting lives in danger. They are caused in a variety of ways, but there are a few simple hints you can follow to prevent them starting.
Keep all fires and heaters well guarded, especially open fires. For fitted or portable heaters with a built in guard, give extra protection by adding a surrounding guard particularly if you have young children or older people in the home. For children, use a nursery guard with side clips that fit into fixed wall brackets
Keep portable heaters and candles away from furniture and curtains. Position safely where they cannot be knocked over
Don't dry or air clothes over or near the fire, or the cooker
Do not smoke in bed
Many fires start in the kitchen, especially fat fires. Never leave a pan unattended when deep fat frying and watch for overheating. For safer frying use oven chips or a thermostatically controlled deep fat fryer
If there are children around, keep matches and lighters well out of reach
Fit approved smoke detectors on each floor. Choose a smoke alarm that is mains operated or one with a long life (ten year) battery
Plan your escape route. Remember Get out, stay out and call the fire brigade out!
Electrical safety
Many accidents and fatalities involve electricity - it must be treated with respect. Here are some tips.
Have your wiring installation checked at least once every five years by an approved contractor, or straightaway if you are buying an older property
Do not use appliances with worn or damaged flexes. Don't wire flexes together
Keep portable mains-operated appliances out of the bathroom
Have electric blankets serviced and checked regularly
If an appliance appears faulty stop using it and have it checked at once
Consider having a RCD (residual current device) for whole house protection. These are especially valuable when power tools are used
Look for the CE mark when you buy electrical equipment
Never overload an electric socket.
Heating and cooking
Safety is especially important when choosing and using heating products.
All fuel-burning appliances use up fresh air as they burn, and give off waste gases including the deadly carbon monoxide (CO). Never block air vents or airbricks and service appliances annually
Be aware of symptoms of CO poisoning such as drowsiness and flu like symptoms
If you use a chimney or flue, or bring one back into use, have it swept at least once a year, or more frequently if you burn wood
Never block any outside grilles or rest anything against it
If a gas flame, which normally burns blue, burns orange this may be a built up of carbon monoxide. Have your appliance checked immediately
Check the pilot regularly on gas cookers and water heaters to make sure it has not gone out
When buying gas appliances look for the British Standards safety mark or British Seal of Approval and beware of second hand bargains and cowboy installers
If you suspect a gas leak, open the windows, turn off the supply and call your gas supplier. Don't operate switches as a spark could ignite the gas
Always keep a special watch on young children and elderly people when fires and heaters are in use.
The kitchen is where some of the most serious home accidents occur.
Plan your storage areas carefully so that heavy items are not kept on high shelves, and items in daily use are within easy reach
Take extra care with hot water, tea, coffee or soup. If there are young children around, they could get scalded
Keep knives sharp and in good condition and out of reach of children
Keep panhandles turned inward so that children cannot reach them and pull them over
Use a cordless kettle or one with a coiled lead so that children cannot pull on them.
