Home Safety

Home Safety Month is a perfect time to prepare yourself and your family for an emergency. Planning ahead can keep you and your family safe if a flood, fire, flu pandemic, terrorist attack, or other public health emergency strikes.

Take these steps to prepare for an emergency

•    Do a walk-through of your home. Check your smoke alarms, child safety locks, and first aid supplies.

•    Get an emergency supply kit.

                http://www.ready.gov/america/_downloads/checklist.pdf

•    Make a family emergency plan.

•    Stay informed.

Put it into Practice

1. Have a mock emergency in order to see what items you would really need in order to survive a disaster in your home

2. Make a scavenger hunt for children in order to see what items you have, or you may need, in your home (i.e. carbon monoxide detector, smoke detectors, stored canned goods and bottled water, fire extinguisher etc.)

3. Contact the American Red Cross or the Center for Disease Control and ask what else YOU could be doing to make your home a safer place

Materials

Protect your child from injury
http://healthfinder.gov/prevention/ViewTopic.aspx?topicId=61

Prepare for an Emergency
http://healthfinder.gov/prevention/ViewTopic.aspx?topicId=54

Protect your family from lead poisoning
http://healthfinder.gov/prevention/ViewTopic.aspx?topicId=63

Emergency supply checklist
http://www.ready.gov/america/_downloads/checklist.pdf

Articles

Bring Safety Home
http://www.nsc.org/safety_home/Pages/safety_at_hom.aspx

Local Resources

Prepare your home and family with the American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d8aaecf214c576bf971e4cfe43181aa0/?vgnextoid=72c51a53f1c37110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default