Pulse of UTMC ? Blog Archive ? ?A Safe Home is in Your Hands ...

Posted by Michelle O?Donnell : June 9th, 2011

Did you know that each year home related injuries cause approximately 20,000 deaths and 21 million medical visits? Thus it is important to take the necessary measures to make you home safe. ?June is Home Safety Month, a month where the Home Safety Council is working to educate and motivate families to take actions that will increase the safety of their homes.

The following 10 Safety Tips can help make your home a safer place for you and the rest of your family.

1. Install grab bars in the tub and shower. Use non-slip mats.
2. Have bright lights over stairs and steps and on landings. Keep stairs clear of clutter.
3. Keep cleaners, medications and beauty products in a place where children can?t reach them. Use child safety locks.
4. Keep all cleaners in their original containers. Do not mix them together.
5. For Poison Help call 1-800-222-1222. Call if you need help or want information about poisons. Call 9-1-1 if someone needs to go to the hospital right away.
6. Have working smoke alarms and hold fire drills. If you build a new home, install fire sprinklers.
7. Stay by the stove when cooking, especially when you are frying food. Use back burners and turn pot handles toward the back of your stove.
8. Install carbon monoxide detectors near sleeping areas.
9. Keep your hot water at 120?F degrees to prevent burns. Use a travel mug when you drink something hot.
10. When your children are in or near water, watch them very carefully. Stay close enough to reach out and touch them. This includes bathtubs, toilets, pools and spas ? even buckets of water.

If you do many of these, great job, you are already on the right track! If not, it may be useful to pick one safety tip/measure at a time to implement rather than trying to implement them all at once.

The Home Safety Council?s website has sections geared towards families with babies and toddlers, families with pre-school/middle school age children, individuals of all ages, and older adults. In addition to the tips mentioned above the website includes additional tips on topics such as:

• falls prevention
• poison prevention
• fire prevention
• choking prevention
• water safety
• baby safety
• toddler safety

For more information go to: http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/AboutUs/HSM/au_hsm_w001.asp

Michelle O?Donnell is a recent graduate from the University of Toledo in May 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences in Pharmacy Administration. She is now pursing a Master of Business Administration and a Certificate of Health Care Policy and Administration. This year she is the president of Lambda Kappa Sigma Professional Pharmacy Fraternity. In her spare time she enjoys reading, knitting, cooking healthy foods, and being active. Currently she is a graduate assistant for the Office of Community Wellness and Health Promotion at UT.
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