Safety Issues in general

First let me start with a shocking statistic, accidents are the most common cause of death in children aged one ? five. Those curiosity ages when children where know no fear, everything is so exciting for them ? especially anything ?adult? which makes our job as parents all the more hard. There are so many dangers around the home it?s scary! One of the best ways for you to see the hazards and dangers in your own home is for you to be at baby level, go on your hands and knees and see what you can get to. There are the obvious hazards of stairs, where you store cleaning products, the oven, fires and heaters, tablecloths, small objects on the floor or within reach that your ...

I recently watched a programme on TV about hints and tips for people who are in the nightmare situation of being caught in a fire. And I thought I would pass on some of the information that was in the programme as something’s I hadn’t even thought of them myself. In the programme they asked a woman to sleep in a house (I have no idea how in the world she went to sleep) and they set fire to it. The house was covered in camera, the fire brigade was there for obvious safety reason, and the experiment could be halted at anytime. She had also been given advice on what she should do to help her get out. The experiment began by leaving a candle ...