Resources for Better Home Safety

Holiday Safety, Children's Safety, Seniors Safety
Homestore provides articles about keeping apartments secure, home security information, tips for keeping your home safe while you are away, and a section on keeping senior citizens safe. Site includes information on holiday safety, children's safety, safety products and do-it-yourself home security features. A crisis kit checklist is also provided, as are tips for children's safety, including going over phone numbers with children, creating a safety game, and viewing your home from a child's perspective to identify potential interests and hazards.

NAR's Field Guide to Home Safety and Security
This site, run by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), is filled with useful articles covering virtually every aspect of home security. There are articles on burglary prevention tips, general safety tips, a home fire prevention checklist, tips on how to make your home safe while you're on vacation. Many of the articles are written from first-hand experience, from people whose homes had been burglarized and who are now sharing their experiences and sharing what they learned that might keep the same thing from happening to you. According to this site, the effects of home burglary are similar to the long-term effects of rape for many people. Home burglary is that serious. Whatever means you need to keep a thief out of your home need to be implemented and need to be implemented before a burglar enters your home.

Weather is Also a Home Safety Issue
The United States has some of the worst weather in the world. Each years there are more than 10,000 thunderstorms, 2,500 floods, 1,000 tornadoes, and an average of six deadly hurricanes. Part of keeping your home and your family safe involves taking the proper safety measures to protect against nature's furry. What can you do to help protect your family's safety during a disaster? Start by making a plan. Decide where people will meet, who they will call, and what steps they will take in everything from a home fire to a tornado or an earthquake. Make a list of insurance policies, banking numbers and other vital information and have it held by a relative or trusted friend out of state. Have a battery-powered radio. Make children aware of what to do. Keep a supply of food and water for an emergency. Even make plans for your pets. It is not usually possible to know when or where a natural disaster will strike, so it pays to be prepared for anything.

Make Your Apartment Safe & Secure
Apartment dwellers have several safety and security issues that are unique to their particular living arrangement. This site has dozens of articles and hundreds of tips and suggestions for making your apartment safer and more secure. Articles include everything from biological pollutants around the home, to making your apartment safe for kids, to how to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning in the home, to learning how to spot dangerous and toxic black mold and what to do about it, to a security audit with safety tips to make your apartment as safe for you and your family as possible, to knowing what to look for in apartment safety before you sign the lease, to apartment safety when you're on vacation, to alarm systems, simple security devices, and even an article on elevator safety. If you live in an apartment and you're concerned about the health and safety of yourself and your family, this site can be a real eye-opener.