Project-Based Learning: Home Safety

From the Seattle - King County Public Health Department.

Information about health hazards that can occur in a home, from the Washington State Department of Health.

Information on fires from the King County Fire Marshall. How to prepare for fires, what to do during a fire, and other resources.

From AARP, a short list of things to check around your home so that you can make your home safer.

From RealSimple.com, another list of things to check around your home so that you can make it safer. (This is a different list, be safe and go through each list in order to be as safe as possible.)

A printable 20-page checklist from the New York State Department of Health. The details in this list could save your life or the life of someone you love.

From AtlanticTraining.com, you cannot have too many safety checklists - each of these overlapping checklists is different and each one has valuable information.

"An accident or injury can occur in any part of your home. Some safety hazards are obvious — such as a toy truck left lying at the top of the stairs. Others are not so easily identified — such as a stairway railing that has become loose. Use these checklists to make a safety check of your home." Like all of these lists this should be used with the other lists because no single list covers everything.

From the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, information about a variety of hazards and what to do about them. Website content is available in English, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Español, French, Korean, and Vietnamese.

From PBS.org: "safety experts have an idea where we go wrong—and what we can do to keep our homes safe from Fire, Carbon Monoxide, Slips and Falls, Electrical Safety, and how to be safe in your 'do it yourself' projects.