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Home Safety Tips

Home safety tips and electrical hazards

What would any of do without all the electrical appliances that get us through our days and nights? We cannot even imagine living without them. But electrical surges pose a great risk to your family and your home. In fact, lightening causes more deaths and destruction in an average year than floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined, making it imperative that every family learn a few home safety tips. Lightening and electrical surges can cause fire and shock hazards if certain measures are not taken. But, luckily most of the damage caused by surges can be prevented.

Following some of these home safety tips when lightening is nearby:

Stay away from all electrical appliances, as well as televisions, fireplaces, metal objects, windows, and doors.
Don't use the telephone, unless there is an emergency.
Find shelter immediately in a building or vehicle.
If there is no available shelter, find a low laying area and crouch down with your feet together and your hands on your knees until the storm has passed.
Stay away from isolated trees, high ground, bodies of water, or other large open areas.
Remember that you cannot be affected by someone else who has been struck.

These are some very helpful home safety tips that can prevent a number of accidents. Go through the importance of home safety with your entire family so nothing comes as a surprise later. There are many resources from which to draw life-saving home safety tips. Your insurance company should have a lot of information including fire safety tips. They will usually provide home safety tips in their literature as well as on their websites. And when you find a particular fire safety tip that you think especially important, pass it along to friends and neighbors.

Protect yourself and your family by trying to implement every home safety tip that you come across. You can never really be too safe!

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