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Protecting your family starts in the home. It’s the place where you and your family want to be and feel the safest. Know the facts about home safety and the potential dangers facing your family everyday, from home fire safety to how to childproof your living area.

The Safety.com Home and Fire Center provides practical solutions with tips and tools that will help keep your family as safe as possible where it needs to be: at home.


Protect Your Home -- Doesn't Matter If You Rent or Own

Regardless of whether you've owned a home for tens of years or are renting your first property, your home or apartment means the same thing to you:  it's your stronghold, your place of refuge. The place where you store the things that mean a lot to you.  Stop to think how easily a disaster can strike and, in the blink of an eye, take all those meaningful things away from you.  Learn how to insure your belongings.  You'll wonder how you ever lived without the peace of mind.

Hazardous Chemicals in the Home

Thousands of new chemicals that didn't exist hundreds of years ago are now commonly used in today's household products. Other chemicals that have long existed are being used in ways as never before. With all the daily contact that we have with chemicals, many people are concerned and have questions about how these chemicals may affect them.
-- Michael S. Levine, Ph.D. CIH

UPDATE: Eliminate Top Safety Threats to Prevent Electrical Injuries

The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) wants to remind consumers that taking steps to eliminate the top electrical safety threats in and around the home may prevent numerous injuries and deaths that needlessly occur each year. According to data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), top electrical safety hazards include: electrical fires caused by aging wiring and misuse of surge suppressors, and electrocutions from wiring systems and large appliances.

Home and Fire Articles

General Home Safety

Fire Hazards

Bedroom

  • Crib Safety - There are numerous types of cribs from which to choose; selecting the safest one can be a hard choice.
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Bathroom

Kitchen

Garage and Outside the House

Pet Safety

Home Security


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