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Protecting Your Home: Understanding and Managing Hazardous Household Products

Learn to recognize and protect against hazardous household products, especially harmful to children. Discover types of hazards, safe usage, storage, and disposal. Valuable insights on indoor air quality, asthma, allergies, and more. Enhance home safety. Resources provided for a healthier living environment.

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Protecting Your Home: Understanding and Managing Hazardous Household Products

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  1. Healthy Home Solutions Lesson 11: Hazardous Household Products <presenter name here>

  2. Knowledge:Recognize that many household products are hazards to health—and children may be especially at risk • Comprehension: Identify examples of hazardous household products, list possible dangers • Application: List actions to protect the home from hazardous products: • Post the Poison Control number • Buy wisely: Select less hazardous products and/or make your own cleaning products • Store safely • Use safely and use less • Safe disposal Learningobjectives

  3. Indoor Air Quality • Asthma & Allergies • Mold & Moisture • Carbon Monoxide • Lead • Drinking Water • Hazardous Household Products • Pesticides • Home Safety Resource:Help yourself to a healthy home

  4. Keep It: • Dry • Clean • Safe • Well-ventilated • Pest-free • Contaminant-free • Well-maintained Seven principles of healthy homes

  5. Household chemicals used for cleaning • Pesticides used for killing pests around the home • Automotive products • Cosmetics and personal hygiene products • Air fresheners • Medications What are hazardous household products?

  6. Many household products can be dangerous • Poisonous chemicals can cause even more problems for children • Children are not just little adults—pound-per-pound, children drink, eat, and breathe more than adults; organs and immune systems are still developing • In 2000, nearly 20,000 children were exposed to or poisoned by chlorine bleach • In 2013, 10,000 laundry packet exposures to children ≤ 5 years • More than 60,000 children poisoned by other people’s medications each year Why do we care?

  7. Children play on the floor and put their hands in their mouths. This is normal behavior for children. They are exploring their environment. • Dangerous substances like toxic cleaning products not only end up on the floor (and on children’s hands and toys—which they put into their mouths) BUT these hazardous chemicals have much more effect on children’s brains, livers and kidneys • Very young children cannot read labels! Older adults with poorer vision also have trouble reading the small print on labels Why do we care?

  8. Name some hazardous household products

  9. What are the risks? Healthy Indoor Air for America’s Homes

  10. What can you do? www.epa.gov/iaq

  11. Signal words: • Caution • Warning • Danger • Danger-Poison • Look up safety data sheets (SDS) for product; these used to be called Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS); see https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3514.html for more info Use safely

  12. Do not mix hazardous products together • Use in well-ventilated areas • Protect eyes, skin, and nose • Consider pump sprays vs. aerosol sprays • Don’t use bug bombs or foggers Use safely

  13. Never leave the product where children can see it or reach it • Don’t eat or drink when using hazardous products • Always put the cap back on after using the product • Buy products in child-resistant containers Use safely

  14. Chlorine bleach https://www.clorox.com/products/clorox-concentrated-regular-bleach/

  15. Bisphenol A (BPA) • May be found in hard, clear plastics and tin can linings • Can leach into food and drink • “Some, but not all, plastics that are marked with recycle codes 3 or 7 may be made with BPA” Plastics:BPA

  16. Used in products including plastics, air fresheners, shampoo • Found in some products with #3 plastic code Plastics:Phthalates

  17. Only buy what you need • Use only enough to do the job • Use safer methods Use less Photo: Wikimedia commons

  18. Use less Buy less-toxic products Make your own “green cleaners” http://www.greenseal.org/ http://www2.epa.gov/saferchoice/learn-about-safer-choice-label

  19. Keep hazardous products away from children • Keep medicines out of sight and out of reach of children; remember purses • Ask for child resistant medicine containers • ALWAYS keep products in original containers • Keep pesticides and others hazardous products at least 150 feet away from wells and water sources • Keep flammable products away from direct sunlight and heat sources Store safely

  20. Hazardous products stored in child accessible area X

  21. Dangerous look alike products

  22. Take leftover products to community hazardous waste collection site • Share extra products such as cleaning supplies with someone else • Read the label for disposal instructions • Never burn hazardous products • Recycle used motor oil • Recycle products with mercury at approved locations • Take advantage of National Drug Take Back Day Safe disposal

  23. Let’s reflect: ApplicationList actions to protect the home from hazardous products homeUse safely, use less, store safely, safe disposal

  24. Thank you! Healthy Home SolutionsLesson 11: Hazardous Household Products Questions? Comments?

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