To take your home safer for your youngster when they're around:
- Keep unsafe products out of reach and locked up. These include cleaning products, household chemicals and medicines. Keep medicines in containers with safety caps.
- View the world from a child's level. To find potential hazards, get down on your hands and knees to see what a child might see. Place breakables, small objects and cords for curtains and window blinds well out of reach. Tie loose electrical cords out of the way and, if possible, hide them. Remove any poisonous plants. Regularly check the floor for mall objects that could be choking hazards.
- Use safety devices. Put safety plugs in unused electrical outlets. Install safety latches on drawers and cabinets. Use safety gates (non-folding) for stairs.
- Consider furniture placement. Keep furniture a child might climb on away from windows. Move unstable furniture out of harm's way.
- Adjust water heater. Keep temperatures under 120 degrees to prevent burns.
- Keep emergency numbers by telephones. List numbers for the child's doctor, the hospital emergency room and the poison control center (and keep battle of syrup of ipecac on hand)
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