Home Hazard Hunt
Introduction
Resources
How-To
Introduction
Do you have a safe home? Or are their “hidden”
dangers that could easily start a fire?
Help your family members become Hazard Detectives
who can help keep your house free of fire hazards. Help them
learn what to look for in each room of the house. The children
are the finders who can spot hazards. The adults are the fixers
who can remove the hazard. That might be as simple as moving
curtains so they do not touch a hot radiator. Or, it may mean
making sure gasoline is stored in a proper container, out
of the house and away from
any heat source.
Resources
To Use
• Home Hazard Hunt Game
(Miki’s brother’s house)
• Home
Hazard Checklist
How-To
• Get your children involved in helping make your home
a Home Safe Home.
• Play the Home Hazard Hunt game together
as you discuss why different things in the home can be fire
hazards, even things that don’t seem dangerous –
a couch, curtains, a stack of newspapers. (The game includes
an index that will help children identify things that are
hazards and why.)
• Turn your kids into a Home Hazard
Hunt Patrol. It is their job to look for things that could
be fire hazards and report them to you or another adult family
member. There may be some things they can help with. You will
tell them which things are safe to help with and you will
show them what to do. For example, they might help you remove
a pile of newspapers or magazines from the living room or
the basement.
• Remember to do routine checks of your
home, garage, shed and all other areas near your home that
could contain fire hazards.
Another Lesson: Things that Burn
There are many things in and around your home that are not
on fire but can still burn children very badly.
Help your kids learn about the “hidden
burners” so they can stay safe and help younger brothers
and sisters stay safe. The message here is that you don’t
have to have a flame to get a bad burn.
Be safe and have adults handle anything that
could be a burn danger for you. Here is a list of household
dangers to discuss with kids. Work with them to add this list.
• Hot surfaces that don’t look
hot. Unplugged irons that have just been used or electric
burners or stoves that are still hot.
• Hot foods. Foods that come out of
the microwave, or the oven, can be steaming hot and burn your
mouth and skin even if they don’t look hot (baked potatoes,
macaroni and cheese, a fruit pie).
• Hot liquids (coffee, soups, boiling
water, hot cocoa).
• Steam. Microwave popcorn is a good
example. The bag has trapped steam while it cooked. The hot
steam can easily burn your hands and face. Only adults should
remove foods like this from the microwave.
• Chemicals. Common household cleaners
with bleach or ammonia can burn eyes and skin.
• Hot sand on bare feet. Wear sandals
when you walk on the beach.
• The sun. Wear a hat and put on sunscreen.
Remember you need to put on more sunscreen after you swim
or take a shower.
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