PPS-Safety

When you have a baby, it is time to think about childproofing the house so that when your baby is old enough to crawl, he or she is not a victim of a terrible accident. There are things a child can get into that you can scarcely imagine, so you have to get down and think like a child in order to protect your baby or toddler from danger. Let’s take a look at some childproofing products you will need to make your home safe for your little one.

· Electrical cords and curtain cords: Put these up and out of the way from your baby and tape down or hide electrical cords so your baby wont chew or pull on them.
· Electrical outlets: Use plastic outlet covers to keep the unused outlets protected from your baby’s fingers. You can also put all electrical outlets behind furniture.
· Radiators: You’ll need a barrier to protect your baby from radiator burns. Put a radiator cover on radiators to keep most of the dangerous heat away from your baby’s touch.
· Plants in the house: These can be poisonous if ingested. Call the local poison control office to determine which are poisonous and which are not.
· Cabinets and drawers: Use latches that protect your child and keep him or her from getting into dangerous drawers and cabinet doors.
· Keep a glass door or screen on fireplaces and watch your baby if the fireplace is going as this can be very dangerous.
· Put in baby safety gates at the top and bottom of staircases so your baby cannot fall and get injured. Gates at the top of stairs must be screwed in, not pressure styles.
· Make sure that anything with slats has no more than a five inch space between the slats or posts. Your baby can get his or her head stuck in them quite easily.

These are all great ideas to think about before your baby is born or as soon as your baby comes home. It won’t be long before your baby can roll and crawl and it is a good idea to think ahead. Put away all things you don’t want your baby to get into and even consider putting away things like coffee tables that have sharp corners.

While it is easy to want your child to explore and learn about things, you really need to pay attention to hazards as well. Childproofing your home is a fairly simple task and will make a big difference in the potential for injuries and accidents. A good Childproofing Kit can be an enormous start.

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Picture yourself on a business trip in a city you’ve never been to. You are staying at a local hotel, nothing spectacular but not the worst you’ve ever seen, either. It is clean and adequate, but a little older, so it doesn’t have great security or locks, which doesn’t make you feel too safe.

You are ready to go to bed and feeling a little uneasy, but you put together a trap to foil any intruder. Your suitcase and the desk chair are wedged by the hotel room door so they will at least slow down any intruder, and you take a wooden hanger from the closet and jam it into the window track and use it as a pin so that the window (hopefully) can’t be opened. You struggle to get some sleep before your big meeting in the morning, but you are up and down all night, with every little noise, checking the door and window.

Let’s look at this situation again but include a personal alarm. The 130db personal alarm can be used on any door. It has a unique clip that has dual contacts on it. While the contacts are touching, there is no noise. The instant that the contacts are moved apart - such as when someone attempt to open the door - the alarm will sound piercingly sufficient to wake up anyone in the area. An alarm this loud will also do another thing: since most intruders don’t want to call attention to themselves, the alarm will usually cause the intruder to flee.

In addition to keeping you safe in your hotel room, the personal alarm is small enough (like a pager) to carry with you and use if you are in an unsafe situation. You can set the alarm in such a way that all you need do is pull the pin on it when you need to draw attention to yourself.

This may be one of the most important self-defense tools you ever buy. It is dependable, effective and affordable. It is also much more lightweight than your suitcase and a hotel chair to keep you safe. Don’t leave your safety to chance.

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When your baby becomes old enough to crawl or toddle around the house, this becomes the time for looking at those things that can be a hazard in your home and adjusting things so your child cannot get into them and get injured. You need to actually think of these things before the baby crawls so you have the time it takes to check out these things for ease of use and safety. You can also have time to recheck your work to make sure you’ve caught every possible hazard.

Safety Latches and Child Proofing Locks

You’ll need to think about getting some safety latches and locks for your kitchen drawers and cabinets. You can install them easily and you should put them on all cabinets containing dangerous chemicals, medications and laundry detergent. When child proofing the kitchen you should lock up all knives, scissors and other sharp items and lock up the “junk drawer” that contains a lot of small objects a baby can choke on. You can put other things in these locked drawers, such as toothpaste and change cups that pose their own hazards but that aren’t usually locked up. In fact, anything small or hazardous should be locked safely away. You need to really look through your house for hazards and lock them up when you find them.

Child Safety Gates

You need to consider getting some child safety gates when the baby can get around by crawling. They can be pressure gates that protect a child from an area of the house or room that might be hazardous or you can use hardware-attached gates that protect stairwells. Hardware-attached gates are best for stairwells because they cannot be pushed out of the way with heavy pressure. Make sure the slats are no more than three inches apart.

Childproofing The Doors

Door knob covers and locks for some doors are really important to keep baby out of areas of the house he or she shouldn’t be in. Locks should be high enough so that the toddler can’t get on a chair and unlock it. You should put door knob covers on exterior doors to prevent baby from getting out but allowing you to get out quickly in case of an emergency such as a fire. Door knob covers are more temporary and can be removed with just a screw driver.

Outlet Safety Covers

You need to think about outlet covers or slides that slide over outlets when baby is old enough to crawl. The outlet covers should be hard to remove because they can, in themselves, become a choking hazard. When you are using the outlet for a bit, make sure you replace the outlet cover or slide the cover closed. Buy outlet covers that are big enough so the child cannot choke on them.

There are many child safety products to choose from when you have a new baby. Look on the Internet or at stores to pick up the items that can most protect your little one from harm and give you peace of mind.

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Going to college for the first time or going back after a long break is a daunting enough experience without having to worry about whether or not your safe in your dorm room or apartment.

We have a number of great products for Home Safety, Dorm Safety and Apartment safety at very reasonable prices. You don’t have to install a security system that cost hundreds of dollars to feel safe at home.

Some of the items that we recommend are door braces, motion alarms, door and window alarms and auto dialer alarms that call a pre-determined number if there is any activity in your home or apartment.

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How many of you are parents and still have electrical outlet plugs on your electrical outlets? My house is personally covered with them. However, the bad thing about regular outlet plugs is their size! How many of you had your kids put them in their mouth??!!?? For keeping things out of your outlets, they work great. However, as a choking hazard, they are one of the worst things to have in your house! I have watched both my children put them in their mouths. Then you have to go and retrieve them from their mouths leading to a tramatic experience for all involved.

That being said there is an awesome product on the market that solves this problem. Safety Caps are bigger than the traditional outlet plug, so your children are not able to stick the whole thing in their mouth. If for some reason they are able to get the whole thing in there, there are two holes in there to aid in breathing. The dad who designed his had his own daughter choke on a regular outlet plug, so he knew he had to do something so it never happened again to another family.

The things I definitely like about this product are almost too numerous to count. First, my kids can’t choke on it. Second, the color is awesome. It actually blends in really well with our electrical covers, so you almost can’t even tell that I have my outlet covered. Its a small thing, but it does look prettier. Lastly, the price rocks! For $9.99 (plus $2.97 shipping and handling), you can outfit your whole house by using this coupon! My regular ones were more than that! I know that my children’s safety is definitely worth that.

If you have little ones or know someone who does, this is a product that is both safe and can save lives. This can make a great gift for a new mom or just making your own house safer.

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I think we could all stand to pay just a little bit more attention to what is going on around us while out in public.

I Recently read, in my local paper, about a woman who lost her purse while pumping gas. She explains how she pulled into the gas station in a very busy part of town, and with many other people around. Her gas tank being on the passenger side of the car, she parked appropriatly. She exited her vehicle and proceeded around the car to begin pumping her gasaline. She finished pumping her fuel and reentered her car. She then notice that her purse was missing. When she originally exited the car, she took only the one credit card she needed to pay at the pump and left her purse sitting on the passenger seat. A bit frazeled she went into the gas station store and spoke to the manager. Together they observed the security tapes of the pump area. There it was, all captured on video.

When she originally pulled into the pumps, a small sedan followed her in and parked at the opposite pump to her drivers door (remember her gas tank was on the passenger side of her vehicle). After she exited her vehicle and proceeded around her car, and inserted her credit card into the pump, a passenger from the sedan parked opposite of her, exited the passenger side of his car, and while squatting down low, opened her car door, entered her vehicle through her drivers door, removed her purse and closed the door very softly. All this was done in less than 30 seconds!

Now I can tell you how to combat this type of theft, but that would be assuming that you were an idiot. What I would really like to drum home to you, is that by just paying a little bit more attention to what is going on around us, this type of activity would not have been possible. I would however, suggest that you always carry your key chain out of the car when refueling, and preferrably have a Key chain pepper spray attached. If this woman had caught this man in mid theft, it may have come in handy. Another good tool would be a portable personal alarm attached to her purse, that would have activated when it was moved. That really would have dumbfounded him.

I thought doubely hard about this crime when I found myself parked at the gas pumps, in a similar manner, just a few days after I read about my neighbors victimization. While pumping my own gas, a woman drove into the gas station and stopped a couple of islands away from me (the station was not to busy) and proceeded to ask me directions. As she was a bit of a soft talker, and me being slightly hard of hearing, I left the close vacinity of my vehicle and walked over to her vehicle to give her directions. After giving her directions and making sure she understood them, I realized that I had left my car unlocked and if some one had wanted to enter it while the woman distracted me by asking for directions, they most easily could have. I was lucky that she really did only need directions.

My point is that we all could stand to be just a little more aware of the situation around us. I know we like to think that it can never happen to us, but there really are people out there that are willing to take what is rightfully yours if the oppourtunity is given to them. I’m also not advocating that we all become paranoid of everyone around us. I’m just reminding everyone that An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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I’m sitting here trying to decide on what to write about tonight and my wife is packing for her business trip tomorrow. Then it hit me, Hotel Safety. Something everyone takes for granted. Your usually exhausted from the trip and just want to lay down and go to sleep, maybe get a shower in first. You never really hear about any problems at hotels, so most people just assume that as soon as they are in the door and standing at the front counter, that they are safe.

Some reasons you never really here about crime at hotels are that victims are usually from out of town, so unless it is an extremely violent crime, there is little chance it will make the news. Also, in the case of thefts, most people don’t report it to the police, but rather to the hotel themselves, who try to handle it in a customer services manner by either reimbursing the customer or telling them that the hotel is not responsible for someone entering their room and stealing from them. Some hotels will even go to the extent of placing signs in the room stating that they are not responsible for your belongings left in the room. Yes they provide safes and safety deposit boxes, but I prefer to bring my own Safety Items and personal alarms.

In a scenario familiar to most overnight business travelers and to a lesser extent the vacation traveler. Your flight was delayed, maybe both taking off and waiting for a gate, the cab or rental car counter lines at the airport were endless and the hotel check-in was a mess. Jet lag is kicking in hard and fast. It’s very late, you’re tired and you have a breakfast meeting with a key client at 6:30 AM. You get your key, avoid the bellman, if your lucky enough to be at a hotel that has one, and then head to your room to collapse into bed. Stop and think for a moment. Take the next few minutes to perform these safety, security and cleanliness checks and get ready for the next day. These “how to’s” will save you time the next morning, they could even save your life some day.

1. When you first enter your room prop the door open, turn on the lights, and check the closets, bathroom, under the bed and behind the drapes. Mistakes do happen and we’ve all heard about someone else being assigned to the same room. This happens more frequently in suites with adjoining bedrooms, where they can rent them as separate rooms as well. Or there could be a thief, or worse, a predator. In any case, don’t close the door until you are sure the room is empty.

2. Check that all connecting doors, windows and sliding doors are locked. If at all possible, avoid first floor rooms with sliding doors or direct access to the outside.

3. Once you lock the door and attach the safety chain, check the diagram on the back of the door to review the nearest exits and stairwells, then mentally plan your escape route. Look out the door, up and down the hall and find the exit signs, check that they are illuminated. If the lights are out, be helpful and contact the front desk to let them know. The few seconds that it takes to review the exit information can save yours or someone else’s life in the event of a fire, earthquake or other emergency. Most fire engine ladders can only reach up to the 6th floor, so it’s a good idea to always request a lower floor.

4. Make sure you double lock your door and then attach the door chain. You might even bring a Portable Door Alarm with you to wake you in the event someone tries to enter unannounced. These are great items that are well worth their small investment. Use the peephole if someone that you were not expecting knocks. Do not open the door to anyone that you did not request to come to the room. Immediately call the front desk and have them send someone up to talk with the unannounced visitor.

All simple things that we really know we should do, we just think to ourselves, “It can’t happen to me”. You lock your doors, put your seat belt on and look both ways when we cross the street. This is no different. A few extra minutes could change your life.

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Pepper spray and pepper spray products are remarkably useful for a full range of purposes. Whether you’re looking for self-defense or a way to ensure your safety while engaging in outdoor exercise, pepper spray is an excellent product. There are many tales of endurance athletes encountering dangerous animals in the wilderness. One goes so far as to say that during a very long foot race through one of the western states a runner was attacked and killed by a mountain lion!Oh, if only he had pepper spray! Light weight and convenient, it never ceases to amaze me that something that costs less than fifteen dollars can save your life. For bear hunters or just hunters in general you never know when you might encounter a defiant or highly-territorial animal and with a can of pepper spray you can deliver a non-lethal dose to an attacking animal. Useful stuff in so many cases!

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I got a couple of your pepper spray products for my friends this past Christmas and they were very thankful. We all work together and didn’t anticipate how early it was going to get dark this winter. As a result we’ve often all left work together escorting one another to our cars so that we don’t get jumped or attacked.

Since buying this product we still walk out together, but not for the same reason. It’s nice to not be afraid. Constant vigilance is not a healthy state of mind and your products have helped all of us be free of it. It’s certainly no fun to be afraid to leave work because you fear being attacked. Since I work in a major urban center it’s a true reality and it happens. But not to me!

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