Let’s be honest, home safety isn’t a particularly fun to talk about. It is just as important as any. If you haven’t noticed, home invasions are on the rise. So, you need to up your preparedness. If you have a family with kids you have an unwritten responsibility to them.
Here’s 10 Home Safety Tips to make you and Your Family Safer
(1) First and foremost, we must be more vigilant. We must be more aware of our surroundings. This is not being paranoid, it’s being aware. Look for anything different or out of place.
(2)Review the situation in your mind. You need to be prepared to assess all your options quickly, to ensure that your response will be the one most likely to get you out of the situation unharmed. Before reacting, think things over.
(3)Act, don’t react. This goes along with remaining proactive and taking the initiative, rather than allowing the wrongdoer to be the one who “calls the shots.” Expect the unexpected by being aware and prepared.
(4) Develop an effective personal protection plan. Having a plan in advance will reduce the likelihood that you’ll be thrown off guard and act foolishly rather than proactively if you have to protect yourself. Part of your home safety tips should include a step by step plan regarding how you will react to certain circumstances. As awkward and strange as this may seem, rehearse what you would actually do in certain circumstances.
(5) Practice protection and evacuation/escape techniques and procedures. Practice makes perfect is more than and old saying, it is a time honored truth. These safety skills can save lives, including your own. Knowing home safety tips is one thing; practicing them is the means for real protection.
(6) Don’t forget to turn on your alarm system whenever you leave your house. You won’t be surprised when you re-enter your home. This one home safety tip can literally make all the difference in the world. There are countless home security systems available today. Also make it obvious to any intruder that your home is under security with a security sticker on a visible window.
(7) Don’t neglect to repair broken locks on windows or doors. What you don’t fix today can help a wrongdoer tonight or tomorrow. Don’t be an accomplice in a crime against yourself.
(8) Don’t leave the bushes and shrubbery around your house untrimmed. When you do, you leave places and spaces for the wrongdoers to lurk and hide in the shadows.
(9) A wrongdoer’s ultimate dream. An unlocked car in a driveway with an extra set of keys to your house inside. This can be a nightmare.
(10) Always keep a charged cell phone in your bedroom at night.
Remember to practice these home safety tips on a regular basis. Eventually you will make these safety skills a natural habit.
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