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Tips For Fire Safety Changes For A Baby

by: Parul | last updated: July 06, 2009
Category: Health & Safety: Safety | Tags: fire safety for a baby

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Tips For Fire Safety Changes For A Baby

Like most other accidental deaths, fire fatalities need not happen. Most fires can be prevented, but when a fire is not foreseeable, injury can often be prevented by thoughtful preparation. In this guide, I am going to give you some tips, so that you can be sure “it can’t happen here”.

Never leave your baby alone in the house, even for a moment. Should a fire suddenly break out you might not be able to get back in to save your baby.

If smoking is permitted in your home, extinguish and dispose of all cigars and cigarettes butts and ashes, pipe ashes, and used matches carefully and never leave them within a baby’s reach.

Do not permit anyone, house guests included, to smoke in bed or even while resting on the sofa.

Keep matches and lighters out of reach of children, even a two year old may be able to light a lighter, and three year old may be able to strike a match. If you carry matches or lighters in your bag, be sure that your bag too, is always out of reach.

Do not allow combustible rubbish to accumulate. Pack such combustibles lightly in a trash container in a well ventilated area that is not exposed to heat.

Be cautious with household products that are flammable. Don’t use, leave or store them near a flame, a lighted cigarette, a fire-pace, a halogen lamp or any other heat source.

Store flammables, such as gasoline or kerosene, in containers designed for that purpose outside the home in an area in accessible to babies. Do not store these flammables in basement; the fumes could migrate and be ignited by the pilot light of furnace or dryer at a seemingly safe distance.

Have your heating system checked and serviced annually.

Be careful not to overload electrically circuits. Always remove plugs from sockets properly, and check electrical appliances and cords regularly for scorch marks, which indicates serious trouble in the system, wear, and/or loose connections.