Secure Zone Safety - Home Safety

Do Not Take Home Safety Lightly!

Kitchens and bathrooms are the two rooms in your house that probably contain the majority of the potentially harmful poisons that you keep at home for various purposes. To ensure home safety for you family go through the two rooms using this checklist:

Home safety in the kitchen:

Post the National Poison Control Center Hotline number near every phone in the house.
Keep caustic and potentially poisonous products in their original containers.
Install child locks on every cabinet door.
Keep pesticides, cleaning products, medications, and all other poisonous, toxic, or caustic products in a locked cabinet.
Make sure that all dangerous products have child-resistent closures.
Install and maintain a carbon monoxide alarm near bedrooms.
Cover trash cans with a tight fitting lid

And in the bathroom:

Install child safety locks on cabinets in which medications, cosmetics, and personal care products are stored.
Keep medications in their original containers with the label.
Dispose of unknown or expired medications by flushing them down the toilet.
Remove medications from any place that a child can reach or get into.
Make sure all medications, vitamins, and both prescription and over-the-counter drugs have child-resistent caps.

Use this checklist and any others that may have even more precautions in a home safety walkthrough of your home. Take the necessary measures to make sure that no children run the risk of poisoning. Talk to your kids about why home safety, in this case when dealing with poisons, is so important and that many useful items and products in the home can be deadly when consumed by people. Let them know that you do not want to prevent them from exploring, but rather want to ensure home safety because you do not want them to get hurt. Make home safety your family's top priority!