What is consumer safety? It’s safety around various material products that you have and use. Here are some common examples:
- Not fastening certain things to the wall and having them fall over on children causing severe injury or death
- Space heaters causing electrical fires or fires to things nearby the heater
- Mixing certain household chemicals causing fumes that will hurt or kill you
- Frozen turkeys in hot oil causing huge flash fires
There are many other ways things can go wrong, but those are some major ones that keep happening to people because of how often people are not aware of the dangers and how to avoid them. Let’s go over the big topics as shown above. You can also go to the following links for more helpful advice on a much larger variety of things so that you can protect yourself and your loved ones from accidental injury or death. The death route is a lot easier to happen than you might think. At least take a look at the following common items.
FASTEN FURNITURE TO PREVENT CHILD DEATH
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Articles:
- NPR: Furniture tip-overs are declining but still injure thousands in the U.S. each year – February 3, 2022
- SPSC: Ahead of Sunday’s Game, CPSC Reminds Families to Tackle the Deadly Hazard of TV and Furniture Tip-Overs
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SPACE HEATERS
Two huge risks:
- Electrical fire inside the wall – This can happen if you have too many things plugged in and a circuit breaker or fuse box is unable to avoid the wires in the wall from heating up too much and catching the inside of the wall on fire. There is a maximum load each circuit in a house can handle. It’s important to know how much and not trip the circuit too much. Also, NEVER replace a blown fuse in a fuse box with anything other than the proper fuse. If you do, you will remove the function of the fuse box which is to prevent your house from catching on fire and killing you and your loved ones.
- Catching nearby things on fire – If you have things too close to the heater you can catch them on fire. If your space heater doesn’t have a tip over sensor that would turn it off if it tips over, then it will just blast the heat into the carpet or nearby things it has fallen into and catch them on fire which will catch your house on fire. Once again making it very possible you and your loved ones will die in a house fire.
There are some other possibilities, but those are the two big ones. Here are more resources that tell you more. You can tell it’s really important by how many government agencies want to tell you about it so that you don’t get hurt or die.
- CPSC – Stay Safe, While Staying Warm This Winter; CPSC Warns Consumers to be Cautious When Using Generators, Furnaces and Space Heaters
- CPSC: PDF – Reducing Fire Hazards for Portable Electric Heaters
- FEMA: PDF – Portable Heater Fire Safety
- Energy.gov – Small Space Heaters
HOUSEHOLD CHEMICAL MIXING DANGERS
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Poison Control: Top Tips for Safe Spring Cleaning
Frozen Turkey Grease Fires
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