Home Safety
	Reading- Volume 2, pages 1-89 Prevention of Injuries in the Home and Home Wiring Hazards Read pages 4-37 in Volume 2 of your course materials. These two important documents highlight the areas of the home that need to be checked for potential hazards. I am not trying to make the reader an electrician or carpenter, but the information does provide good suggestions for making the home a safer environment. As you review this material, you might want to start working on your home safety inspection assignment.  Another good resource (besides the course materials) is the Home Safety Council's Resource Center.  They have a lot of good checklists that you can use. Underwriter's Laboratories Inc home safety inspection checklist Home Safety Test Start out by taking the home safety test. This is a “just for fun” or “what I know [or don’t know]” test (you have to do it and submit it to your instructor). Send your responses to safety@siu.edu . The State of Home Safety in America™ Report The Home Safety Council, along with researchers from the Injury Prevention Research Center, recently revealed its 2004 State of Home Safety in America report. This second-of-its-kind study (the first one was in 2002) evaluates existing unintentional home injury data and examines what people are doing to prevent the millions of injuries and thousands of deaths that occur in the home each year. The Home Safety Council will use this report as a benchmark for examining future trends in home injury prevention and practices. Read the components of this report and report back to the instructor 3 major findings (this is a required assignment - 10 points). Home Electrical Safety Visit the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) Web site, view their home safety section, and complete all of the links that they have, including the: Home Safety Checklist - Protect your family from fire and other electrical hazards by using this short checklist. These simple and easy steps will help you to identify and to correct electrical dangers commonly found in homes. Old Home Wiring Recycling = Safety Space Heaters Outdoor Safety Portable Generator Safety Halloween Safety ESFI Holiday Safety Series: Holiday Safety Starts Here! Write a one page summary of what you learned from this review of the ESFI Web site and send the review to safety@siu.edu . Falls and Hip Fractures Among Older Adults In the United States, one of every three adults 65 years old or older falls each year. Review this article from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and get the complete details about this important injury topic. Also read the following course materials and Web site: Falls and the Elderly: An assessment and recommendations for reducing injuries (National Safety Council, 1997), pages 44-49. Injuries to elderly women in the home environment: A research review (IEJHE, 2001), pages 49A. The elderly woman and osteoporosis (IEJHE, 2001), pages 49B. When slips get serious: The basics on fall-proofing your home (Family Safety, 2001), pages 49C. Safe Steps to Reduce Falls Liberty Mutual Home Safety Quiz - Take Liberty Mutual Home Safety Quiz and send the results to your instructor at safety@siu.edu.   Home Safety Quiz Home Safety Tips from the Home Inspector Locator - Look at Home Inspector Locator’s home safety tips and send your Instructor (safety@siu.edu ) a complete copy of two of the tips. Do the home safety inspection (read course assignments sheet) and submit to safety@siu.edu . Review the video on lead poisoning called "lead away" at http://www.kittle.siu.edu/ritzel/313/wmv/. For up to 10 bonus points, write a summary of the video and how you would use it in a community setting.
	updated 22 November 2009, Copyright 2001-2009, Dale O. Ritzel, Ph.D.

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