Kitchen Safety for Children Kitchens can pose many dangers to you and your family, and particularly to children who wish to cook. With the prevalence of heat, electricity, water, salmonella, knives and many other sharp objects, it is important to carefully manage your children's kitchen activities. … [Read more...] about Kitchen Safety for Children
Home Safety
Common House Hazards And How To Prevent Them
Common House Hazards And How To Prevent Them Guest post A hazard is best defined as a situation that can be a source of danger to life, property, surroundings as well as the overall well-being of any individual. A large number of people are never aware of the extent of severe hazards that … [Read more...] about Common House Hazards And How To Prevent Them
How to Protect Your Home From a Fire
How to Protect Your Home From a Fire A recent study has revealed that in America and Australia, the number of people dying every year in house fires is more than the total number of deaths caused due to the combined effect of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and volcanic … [Read more...] about How to Protect Your Home From a Fire
Home Improvement Tips and Ideas For Your Home Renovation
Home Improvement Tips and Ideas For Your Home Renovation Guest Post As Summer begins its slow and somewhat demoralising march toward the opposite end of the planet, it can be hard not to feel a little blue. Life’s annoyances just seem that much more manageable with a temperate northerly breeze … [Read more...] about Home Improvement Tips and Ideas For Your Home Renovation
Safety in the Home: Hazard Prevention
Safety in the Home: Hazard Prevention Everyone wants to be safe in their home. It is the one place where you can retreat from the world, shut the doors, close the blinds, and just enjoy the peace and serenity of your own little world. Unfortunately, in the home, there are often hidden hazards that … [Read more...] about Safety in the Home: Hazard Prevention
UK National Chip Week: Fire Safety in the Kitchen
UK National Chip Week: Fire Safety in the Kitchen Guest Post Whether you’re a lover of the ‘chip shop chip’ or a fan of the French fry, us Brits just can’t seem to resist the potato treat. So much so, in fact, that more than 1.6 million tonnes of potatoes are made into chips every year in … [Read more...] about UK National Chip Week: Fire Safety in the Kitchen
Do you know the Hidden Hazards that Lurk in your Home?
Do you know the Hidden Hazards that Lurk in your Home? Home is supposed to be a person's sanctuary, but hidden dangers may be lurking even here, just waiting to eradicate your inflated sense of security. Some of the most persistent threats to the safety of a home are naturally occurring and … [Read more...] about Do you know the Hidden Hazards that Lurk in your Home?
Jobs At Home Day
Jobs At Home Day Worksafe Victoria have just launched a new campaign “jobs at home day” – 15th February. Statistics from a Worksafe study in 2012 revealed that 58% of workers have never considered the impact a workplace accident would have on their loved ones at home. They are asking everyone to … [Read more...] about Jobs At Home Day
How to iron safely
How to iron safely Probably one of the dangerous items, if left out, is the trusty iron: · It easily unbalances off the board · it has a sharp pointy edge. And · it is hot if it is still on! There are irons that turn themselves off, but if you don’t have one of these unplug it from … [Read more...] about How to iron safely
Gas Safety At Home
Gas Safety At Home: Risk Management Guest post Natural gas has a variety of uses from cooking and heating, to power generation, manufacturing, and transport. In addition, other forms of gas like petrol, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), and diesel, are also used on a day-to-day basis. Most people use … [Read more...] about Gas Safety At Home