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Take a Room-by-Room Approach to Home Safety

Make sure you are staying safe where you most likely spend the most time – your home. A new website launched by the Home Safety Council, www.MySafeHome.org, can help with a room-by-room virtual safety tour. You will learn how to protect yourself and your family from the leading causes of home injury – falls, poisonings, fires and burns, choking/suffocation and drowning. By encouraging families to tackle safety dangers room-by-room and providing the simple steps they can follow, the Home Safety Council aims to curb the nearly 20,000 deaths and 21 million medical visits that result from home injuries on average each year.

The Home Safety Council’s new research reveals that U.S. adults rank the kitchen, bathroom and stairway/hallway as the most dangerous rooms of the home. Although the majority of the adults surveyed recognize the presence of injury risks in these areas, nearly half (45 percent) admit they have not taken action to make any of the rooms in their home safer.

The Home Safety Council’s new online destination, MySafeHome.org, is an innovative and interactive Web site that lets users explore a virtual home so they can understand where dangers lurk in their own homes. Using digital motion graphics animation in a navigable, virtual home and yard, MySafeHome.org illustrates the major risk areas found throughout the home and presents the safety devices and preparedness plans needed to make every home safe.

 

Visit www.MySafeHome.org today to customize a safety plan for your own home.

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