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Keep it safe

Steps to a Healthier Home. Keep it safe. Learning Objectives. Are Injuries Accidents?. Accidents. Injuries. Safety-Related Housing Issues. Source: American Housing Survey – 2011. What are the most common causes of home injury deaths?. Which age groups are most susceptible?.

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Keep it safe

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  1. Steps to a Healthier Home Keep it safe

  2. Page 8.1 Learning Objectives

  3. Page 8.1 Are Injuries Accidents? Accidents Injuries

  4. Page 8.2 Safety-Related Housing Issues Source: American Housing Survey – 2011

  5. Page 8.2 What are the most common causes of home injury deaths?

  6. Page 8.3 Which age groups are most susceptible?

  7. Window Safety Guard Page 8.3 Safety Glass?

  8. Page 8.4 Handrails and grab bars where needed?

  9. Page8.4 Where do kids play?

  10. Page 8.5

  11. Page8.5 Sharp edges Splinters

  12. Page 8.5 What Do They Land On?

  13. Page 8.6 Poisoning • 82% of households keep medicines in unlocked drawers or cabinets. • 69% of homes with young children store household chemicals in unlocked areas.

  14. Page8.6

  15. Page 8.7 Labels

  16. Page 8.7 CPSC Principal Display Panel • Signal word • Affirmative statement of principal hazard • Statement to read other cautions on another panel if all labeling is not on Principal Display Panel

  17. Page8.8 What’s under the sink? Warning Caution Danger

  18. Page 8.8 Danger

  19. Page 8.8 Corrosive v. Irritant Understand the difference.

  20. Page 8.9 Flammable v. Combustible • Flash Point • Extremely Flammable • Flammable • Combustible Flammables start fires. Combustibles feed fires. If you need to choose, pick a combustible.

  21. Page 8.9 EPA Pesticide Product Label • Product Name • Ingredients • Active • Inert / Other • “Keep Out of Reach of Children” • Signal Work - Poison/Danger/ Warning/Caution • First Aid • If Poison, then skull and crossbones • Net contents. EPA Registration Number is Key

  22. Page 8.10 Storing Hazardous Materials • Well labeled bottles • Easy to identify • Store hazardous materials in secure location

  23. Page 8.11 What about bug spray?

  24. Page 8.11 Arts & Craft Materials

  25. Page 8.11 Food Safety

  26. Page 8.11 Fires and Burns • House fires • Water heater temperature

  27. Page 8.12 Home Fires from Smoking • 7,600 fires each year • Leading cause of civilian fire deaths • 67% from abandoned/discarded smoking materials • Bedroom - leading area of fire origin • Fires occurred most often from noon to 8 p.m.

  28. Page 8.13 • Smoke Alarm • CO Alarm • Fire Extinguishers

  29. Page 8.13 Scalding To avoid risk of scalding: Hot water should be less than120°F Hot water should be less than - 120 degrees F to avoid risk of scalding

  30. Page 8.14 Choking and Suffocation

  31. Page 8.14 Crib Safety

  32. Choke hazards? Page 8.15 Electric shock hazard?

  33. Page 8.15 Drowning

  34. Page 8.16 Firearms Trigger locks and secured storage Store ammunition separate from weapon

  35. Keep it Safe There are many ways to be injured in the home 12

  36. Page 8.16 IPMC Sections Related to Safety

  37. Page 8.17 IPMC Sections Related to Safety

  38. Page 8.17 IPMC Sections Related to Safety

  39. Page 8.18 Key Messages • Injuries are not accidents. They are preventable. • There are many simple and inexpensive ways to prevent home injuries. • Children and older adults are more at risk for injuries in the home. • Falls, poisoning, and fires/burns are the most common causes of injury deaths.

  40. Page 8.18 Learning Objectives

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