June Is Home Safety Month: How Safe is Your Home? — by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at )
June Is Home Safety Month, and a great opportunity to a take look at how safe our homes are. How safe is your home? The Home Safety Council has a very informative website, and you can use their Safety Guide to make sure you haven’t been overlooking an important safety issue in your home.
Make sure you check out their Resource Center, it has everything you could ever want to know about home safety.
This year’s Home Safety Month campaign theme – Hands on Home Safety – asks the public to take some simple hands-on steps to create a safer home environment from the five leading causes of home injury – falls, poisonings, fires and burns, choking/suffocation and drowning. We’re offering turnkey resources to help families nationwide learn how to be “hands-on” with proper home safety practices.
It’s summer, so don’t forget to check out the safety tips for grilling and swimming safety.
Here are a few other women blogging about home safety this month.
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Are you ready for a disaster? Hands on Home Safety – asks the public to take some simple hands-on steps to create a safer home environment from the five leading causes of home injury – falls, poisonings, fires and burns, choking/suffocation and drowning. The Home Safety Council (HSC) is the only national nonprofit organization solely dedicated to preventing home related injuries that result in nearly 20,000 deaths and 21 million medical visits on average each year.
Sandy from the Chronic Health Blog has links to all of June’s health awareness campaigns…
Another month has gone by and the year is almost half over! Here’s my monthly list of the national health awareness campaigns you can research and become involved in if you are interested. I will be posting about some of these throughout the month.
Michelle from …
In recent years, ergonomists have attempted to define postures which minimize unnecessary static work and reduce the forces acting on the body. All of us could significantly reduce our risk of injury if we could adhere to the following ergonomic principles:
- All work activities should permit the worker to adopt several different, but equally healthy and safe postures
- Where muscular force has to be exerted it should be done by the largest appropriate muscle groups available.
- Work activities should be performed with the joints at about mid-point of their range of movement. This applies particularly to the head, trunk, and upper limbs.
Is there a home safety issue that you tend to overlook or avoid? Is there something you’ve been meaning to get to, but you keep putting it off? How safe is you home?
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Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan at catherine-morgan.com, The Political Voices of Women, Care2 Election Blog