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Showing posts with label home accidents by electricity. Show all posts
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Home accidents caused by matches and electricity and how to prevent it?

MATCHES AND SMOKING

 Keep matches and lighters out of the reach III children. Place good-sized, deep ashtrays in every room. Use only though of ashtray that will keep cigarettes from fallen out. Check or wet down ashtrays before emptying them into wastebaskets. When smoking in a chair, put out your cigarette or cigar at the first feeling of drowsiness. Make it a rule never to smoke in bed, while lying on a sofa, or reclining in a chair that invites sleep. And before going to bed, make certain no pipe, cigar, or cigarette has been left burning anywhere. Remember that smoking and careless placement of matches constitutes the greatest fire hazard in the home.


ELECTRICITY

 Electric wiring and appliances are the No. 2 cause of home fires. Overloaded circuits, "octopus" outlets, wrong amp fuses, forgotten irons, frayed Wiring-all are dangerous. Use the right size fuse, usually 15 amperes, for your circuits. Don't use a penny for "convenience" when a fuse blows and don't substitute a larger amp fuse. A fuse is a safety valve for an electric circuit; if the fuse has greater capacity than the circuit and so will not burn out when the circuit is overloaded (and, of course, a penny will not burn out), then fire may occur somewhere in the circuit, perhaps in a wall. Don't overload your wall outlets. If you need more places to plug in lamps or appliances, call in an electrician. See that your TV antenna is rigged so it cannot fall across a power line, and have it equipped with a lightning arrestor. Also, keep an air space behind and around your TV set.

Unless you really know your business, don't try to make any internal repairs to a TV set, even if it is disconnected. A set builds up a heavy charge of static electricity that can give you a dangerous jolt even when the plug is out. Buy irons and electrical cooking appliances that have heat-limit controls. And be fussy about making certain that irons are turned off after use and before leaving the house. Never procrastinate about repairing a frayed electric cord. Check appliances, or have them checked regularly to make certain they are in good operating condition.