To make your home poison safe, store all of your cleaning supplies securely up and away from young children. Poisonings can be toxic! Save a life.
Attention: It is National Poison Prevention Week! In 1962, President John F. Kennedy declared the third week in March National Poison Prevention Week. March 20-26 is dedicated to raising awareness about the fatal dangers of poisonings and how to actively prevent them. Do you know if your home is poison safe? Cedar Square Homes is here to help you identify toxic hazards within your home to ensure ultimate safety and awareness.
Is Your Home Poison Safe?
When you live in your home and see the same items in the same places every day, it may not occur to you how potentially dangerous their placement could be. You may have grown accustomed to leaving your remote controls out on the living room table or your cleaning supplies in a cabinet under the sink, but these are actually not safe practices if you ever have children or pets inside your home.
Why? If the batteries (which are toxic) in your remote control fall out somehow, they could be chewed on or ingested by your child or animal. Additionally, storing cleaning supplies in low level cabinets that are not equipped with child safety mechanisms. Walk through your home and assess it for the following potential hazards:
Kitchen: cleaning supplies, medicine, alcohol, vitamins, aerosol sprays, fragrance oils
Nursery: baby care products, small ingestible objects
Laundry Room: laundry products, cleaning supplies
Living Room: button batteries, cigarettes, plants, fragrance oils, small ingestible objects
Bedroom: medicine, personal care items, cosmetics, jewelry cleaners, fragrance oils
Bathroom: medicine, cleaning supplies, personal care items, cosmetics, fragrance oils, aerosol sprays
Yard: mushrooms, plants, pesticides, stinging insects
Garage: pesticides, garden chemicals, cleaning supplies, carbon monoxide, anti-freeze, torch oil, auto chemicals
How to Make Your Home Poison Safe
Make sure that any potentially hazardous items you found during your assessment are stored securely, high above, out of sight and out of reach of your pets and children. Know your resources! Be sure to write down and display the following phone numbers in your home so they can be easily accessed by babysitters, pet sitters, and family members:
National Poison Control Center: 1-800-222-1222
ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center: 888-426-4435
- Click here to see a full list of plants that may be toxic to your animals
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