Top Ten Ways To Keep Your Home Safe

Top Ten Ways To Keep Your Home Safe

Your home should be your castle. It should not be a hotbed of accidents, where you’re consistently waiting for the other shoe to drop. In order to assure that you and your family stay safe there are some steps that you can take to make sure it stays that way.

The top ten ways to keep your home… and you… safe are:

• Keep your steps and other darkened areas well lit. Areas which are overly darkened naturally should be lit up. If you don’t have the capacity to add lights there, add the stick on, press to illuminate type of lights that will at least give you some measure of prevention against falls. Install solar lighting on paths and dark areas outside.

• Make sure that electrical problems are attended to immediately. If you have lightbulbs or constantly flipping breakers, get an electrician in to find out why. When things like toasters and coffee makers, effective dead shorts, are not in use, unplug them. Never leave home while the dryer is in operation.
  
• Practice regular fire drills and keep a smoke-fire alarm in good condition at all times. In a fire you generally have less than five minutes to get out of your house. Getting a good alarm will save lives.
  
• Consider a CO2 alarm. While you may have no problems at all with this, making sure that you don’t is invaluable.
  
• Keep your doors safe. Install bolts and chain locks so that you can have the door open a crack to see who’s there prior to answering. Light up areas of your outdoors that are currently hidden from view.
  
• Safeguard all of your outlets by installing the safety plugs that are available for that purpose.
  
• If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t repair your own appliances and household items. In most cases they’re probably cheaper to replace.
  
• Keep stairways and other areas clear of obstacles. Having things on the stairs or at the top of the stairs is one of the most common problems or reasons for falls in the home.
  
• Make it a rule that no one is permitted in the driveway when you are backing your car out or leaving for work but make it a rule too that you walk all the way around your car prior to starting it and backing it out.
  
• Keep snow and ice clear from your walkways and stairs by using an ice melt product as soon as you see the ice there.