Articles related to: personal safety
1: Basic Fire Prevention For Your Home And Personal Safety
According to the estimates of USFA in the year 2004 alone the number of fires that took place in the United States was 1.5 million. The estimated loss in dollars stood at staggering 9.8 billion dollar..
2: How To Avoid Brain Injuries To Your Child
Tommy now had the coolest bike on the block. It was sleek, shiny black, and made for speed. The bike came with a new helmet, but how cool was that? Girls were not impressed by helmets. He was a dashin..
3: How To Hike Safely
Communing with nature is no walk in the park. Consider Laura. She and a friend set out for an afternoon excursion around the local reservoir. Estimated time: four hours of hiking.In that four hours, s..
4: How To Avoid Falls At Home
For years, Gail kept her favorite captain's chair with its comfortable seat cushion beside her kitchen pantry. Not only was it an attractive piece of furniture, it was also perfect to stand on for rea..
5: How To Avoid Insect Stings
Liz and seventeen-month-old Cade had a wonderful day at the zoo. When they returned to the car, Liz strapped the toddler into the child safety seat, which unfortunately also held some food crumbs.As L..
6: How To Paint Safely
Ann was tired of those hot rubber gloves. She had been using a solvent to remove the stain from the wooden stairs leading to the upstairs bedroom for four hours now, and her patience had worn thin. Sh..
7: How To Swim Safely At Your Home Pool
Swimming is great exercise and wonderful entertainment for children. Nevertheless, drowning is the second-leading cause of injury-related death in children. Each year, about 1,000 children drown and a..
8: Self-Defense With A Stun Gun
There are a wide variety of non-lethal self-defense weapons available today. If you're looking for afford ability, portability and reliability, the standard stun gun is a great choice. Many different ..
9: How To Prevent Poisonings
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than two million unintentional human poisoning exposures a year in the United States, and approximately 20,000 deaths. About..
10: How To Stay Safe On ATVs
Hank knew better. But his little grandson, Steven, was so persuasive, and even though he was only eight years old, he was darned good at driving an ATV.What harm could there be in letting the little r..
11: Staying Safe On The Jogging Trail
Jogging to stay fit has become a national pastime. The benefits of jogging are unquestionably worth the effort. Its also well worth taking extra time to ensure your safety on the trail. One must be pr..
12: The Need For Self-Defense Products
Protecting yourself is one of life's basic instincts of survival. When you sense danger your body goes into high stress mode to warn you. Being able to defend yourself from harmful situations is essen..
13: Finding the Best Self Defense Product for You
It's always best to be prepared for the worst. Purchasing a self defense product will give you peace of mind no matter where life takes you. There are many ways to defend yourself. It is important to..
14: How To Help People With Disabilities Live Safely
People with impaired vision, hearing, balance, or mobility face special safety challenges we may not have considered. Here are some things we can do to be more helpful to disabled people, whether the ..
15: How To Keep Your Grandkids Safe When They Visit
Grandchildren are truly a blessing. They rejuvenate and bring a great new sense of excitement and discovery. And there's always that wonderful feature that you can hand them back to your children when..
16: How To Use Power Tools Safely
Craig is a skilled and experienced woodworker. It's more than a hobby for him, it's his passion. And sometimes our passions get the best of us. Like that Saturday when Craig wanted to make one more cu..
17: How To Avoid Illness During Your Hospital Stay
Kathy was scheduled for surgery at 9 a.m. As she was being wheeled into the operating room, the nurse smiled and assured her the surgeon would do a wonderful job with her hysterectomy.Kathy shrieked a..
18: How To Prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Alex loved to barbecue. He had all the tools and all the recipes. So, when it started raining on daughter, Kristin's, birthday party, it made sense to move his grilling job indoors.It took some level-..
19: How To Drive Safely At Night And During The Fall
After a summer of vigorous off-road adventures, one headlight beam on Stan's SUV strayed across to the shoulder of the far lane. The other beam lit up the tree line on the right shoulder. Which didn't..
20: How To Hunt Safely With A Gun
Jack was the picture of health, even at age 75. He loved life, and all of his outdoor pursuits, especially squirrel hunting.It wasn't taxing, and he didn't have to travel far from home to do it. He ar..
21: Alcohol Safety
Ole was having a heck of time. The World War II fighter pilot had a captive audience at the restaurant, and he was in rare form. The stories became bigger than life, and Ole kept ordering his favorite..
22: A Stun Gun or A Cell Phone? -Enhanced Personal Protection for Pocket or Purse
A new, high technology weapon has arrived in the battle against personal crime. The next time an attacker plans on robbing or attacking someone and they may get a surprise from the victim's cell phon..
23: How To Use Electricity Safely
When safety procedures are not followed, life can be a series of painful should have's and could have's.Such was the case for California parents who should not have let their seven-year-old and nine-y..
24: Mobile Phone Safety
It is a sad fact that mobile phone theft is a common occurance in our modern society. Phones are often stolen to be sold on and with ever changing models and special features, the lastest phones are i..
25: How To Drive Defensively
Here's some information that should bring you to a screeching stop: Your lifetime odds of being killed in a motor vehicle accident are about 1-in-100. Furthermore, each year one of nine drivers is inv..
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