http://www.fivestarsafety.com/home-safety/backyard-safety-tip.html This page is dedicated to the backyard safety tip and to keeping your family safe from the wild outdoors. With each backyard safety tip listed below, you are certain to have fun outdoors without losing sleep. en-us Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:28:37 EST Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:28:37 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 Backyard Safety Tips - For you and your family At Five Star Safety, we pride ourselves in providing the best and most honest home safety tips to help you and your family stay out of harm's way. On this particular page, we have decided it is time to focus our sights on the backyard and backyard safety. Much to the surprise of many parents, the backyard is a haven for disastrous activity. Here are a few very basic, but very helpful backyard safety tips: The first backyard safety tip concerns those families that have a swimming pool. If you do, in fact, have a swimming pool ad you also have children or your neighbors have children, look into purchasing a gated enclosure. The fence will help prevent your children and other uninvited guests from accidentally drowning. Our next backyard safety tip often escapes most parents, but it is just as important. If you have dense foliage in your yard, be sure to check up on the plant life. No one wants a child or pet eating or playing near poison ivy or other hazardous plants. A backyard safety tip that many parents overlook is covering the electrical ports on the patios. Many folks purchase plastic covers for the indoor outlets, but surprisingly, many people overlook them outdoors. Don't be one of them. These are an essential backyard safety product for homes with children. A very important backyard safety tip that folks in the midwest and northeast have to worry about is the tick check. Whenever those playful kids enter the front door, do your best to check for ticks and other mites. Ticks in particular can nestle for extended periods of time and give humans Lyme's Disease. Didn't see a backyard safety tip that you are certain needs to be addressed? Do us all a favor and contact our webmaster with your great ideas. These are just a few quick tips to help put you at ease. As always, be on the lookout for newer and better backyard safety products, and always keep an eye on those kids. Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:28:37 EST