{"id":168,"date":"2021-07-22T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:38:55","slug":"home-safety","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/home-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Protecting Young Children<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the biggest threats to children is an injury occurring at home, so it is important to take action steps to childproof your home. While this may seem like a daunting task at first, the UGA Extension <a href=\"https:\/\/fieldreport.caes.uga.edu\/publications\/C1049\/childproofing-your-home-safety-checklist\/\">Childproofing your home<\/a> checklist will help make your home safer for the whole family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poison Prevention<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year over 1 million people are accidentally poisoned. We often think it is only young children, but people of all ages can be poisoned. Common causes of poisonings are medications, cosmetics and personal care products, household cleaning products,&nbsp;and pesticides. Inside our homes there are many potential hazards. You can reduce hazards by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/publications\/detail.html?number=C1109\">laundry pods out of reach<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Becoming aware of\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/publications\/detail.html?number=c1227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">look-alike products<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span>Safely storing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/publications\/detail.html?number=C1051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hazardous household products<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toxic Look Alikes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fZckzdz5efQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Protecting Older Adults<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury and death in the home, followed by poisoning, choking, drowning, and fire. Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/publications\/detail.html?number=B1429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Home Safety Checklist<\/a> to correct problem areas in your home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting Young Children One of the biggest threats to children is an injury occurring at home, so it is important to take action steps to childproof your home. While this may seem like a daunting task at first, the UGA Extension Childproofing your home checklist will help make your home safer for the whole family. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-sidebar","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/hie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}