Home Safety Check

 After a serious burn call 911 or call your doctor as soon as possible     

Child Safe Kitchen

• Always keep an eye on your child when you are cooking. 
• Cook food on the back burners whenever you can. Stoves are safer with knobs on the stove top, not the front.
• Take the tablecloth off your table so your child can’t pull hot food or drinks down onto themself.
• Put hot food or liquid in the middle of the table or counter, or in a place where your child can’t reach it.
• Don’t hold your child while carrying a cup of hot liquid.
• Keep your child away from hot microwaved food, straight out of the oven.  
• Keep your child away from in-use appliances, such as the dishwasher, or dryer which may be hot.
• Keep electric cords out of your child’s reach.
• Make sure to keep your child off the countertop so he or she cannot reach hot things.
• Never bathe your child under running water. Hot water surges cause scalds. 

Child Safe Bathroom

• Always stay with your child when he or she is in the bathtub.
• Turn your water heater down to 120° F or lower.
• Check the temperature of the bath water before placing your child in the bath. The temperature should not be higher than 100°F. Use a tub thermometer to check the temperature of the bath water.
• Face your child away from the faucet when he or she is in the tub. Keep your child close to the back of the bathtub. Place a blue sticker on the cold water faucet and a red sticker on the hot water faucet.
• Put anti-scald handles on the faucets in your bathtub and sink if you cannot lower the water temperature to 120° F.

Child Safe Bedroom

• Can my child reach something hot from the crib?
• Move your child’s crib away from radiators and hot pipes.
• Keep irons and hot styling tools (curling irons, flat irons, etc.), ashtrays and cigarettes out of your child’s reach.