Best of Security and Safety Around the Home and Fireplace

Home is a place where one should not only feel safe but also be safe and secure at all times because this is where one comes to rest, spend time with ones family and be happy.

In some areas, a lot of effort and cost go into making home a safe and secure place where relaxation can be fully enjoyed. Electrified fences, automated gates, security cameras and lights with sophisticated alarm systems linked to armed response backup units are only standard items a normal home must have in some places.
Safety related to accidents and fire in any home is however, something that should not be taken lightly in any level of security zone.

So many accidents and tragedies happened over the years at home of which many could have been prevented or at least reduced. To go into the detail of every fire hazard in this one article is impossible. Simply if only listed it will take up many pages of space if it was even possible to list all potential hazards.

The first rule on fire prevention for everyone should be to be fire conscious. Some of the usual topics, talked about thousands of times, can be listed as a reminder; overloaded electrical wall sockets, damaged electric cords, storage of flammable materials, unsafe flame and spark working conditions, the list goes on. In subsequent articles some and hopefully most of the topics will be covered in particular with suggestions on possible remedies.

Ones children are, and should be, the most valuable to everyone and thus the home should be planned and built for their security and safety. Besides self closing, robust gates in the swimming pool fences, the outside doors leading to the pool area can be installed with high door handles, no less than five feet from the floor or at least a chain high on the door. Teaching ones children to be "water wise" helps but there may be visitors.

If chlorine is used for maintenance of the pool, storage of the substance should be very secure and locked. Because of the unstable reactive nature of chlorine, apart from being toxic, it should not be within reach of children of any age.

Storage of firewood is normally not too much of a risk provided the volume stored is not too much, too close to the fire. Charcoal should be handled with more care and be stored some distance away from the fire place to prevent a smoldering fire in the stack caused by a spark from the fire. Firelighters, liquid or solid, should be stored away from the fireplace in a suitable location.

It is said "rather safe now than sorry later", which would have been the perfect solution to prevent accidents, however, in the real world accidents still do happen or are caused, irrespective of excellent preventative measures against. For this reason, one should also be prepared for the worst, not meant in a negative way.