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Keep Fire Safety In Mind During Spring Cleaning
Spring cleaning in all its forms will be on the minds of many Canadians at this time of year. But have you ever really stopped to ask yourself what you can do along the way to ensure that your action items are also making improvements in your home’s fire safety for the year ahead?
Tidying up on the home front, disposing of, or recycling clothes, furniture and other unused items, cleaning up areas like the garage, garden and patio – are all obvious and practical starting points for any spring-cleaning campaign.
But don’t ignore the improvements you can make in the area of home fire safety as you launch into your annual clean-up.
One task to include is searching across the house and in the garage or storage areas for any empty or unused containers that could actually pose a fire or toxic hazard, including containers of paint, solvents, bleach and household cleaners.
If your home has a fireplace, what will you do with any unused firewood now that spring is here? Moving wood from inside the house out to the garage or a storage area makes good sense to enhance home fire safety.
Two more fire safety ‘action items’ to remember are replacing the batteries in your home smoke alarms, and if your smoke alarm is more than ten Years Old, replace it.
Interestingly, a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted earlier This Year on behalf of Duracell showed that Canadians clearly have room for improvement when it comes to considering fire safety as part of their spring cleanups. Among the usual spring-cleaning chores performed by many Canadians, the two that most directly impact home fire safety received the lowest response in the survey.
“Installing fresh batteries doubles your odds of escaping a fire,” says Carol Heller, a home safety specialist with Kidde Canada, the country’s largest manufacturer of fire safety products. “Also remember to replace old alarms by following the 10/7 Replacement Rule: Smoke alarms must be replaced every 10 years and carbon monoxide alarms every 5-7 years, as recommended by the National Fire Protection Association.”
Only about one in four (26%) Canadians polled said they will be removing potential fire hazards from their home, such as unused paints or solvents, as well as unused fire wood. And just over one in three (37%) said they will replace smoke alarm batteries in their home as part of their annual spring cleaning campaign this year.
The poll was conducted Jan. 15 to 20, 2010 on behalf of Duracell and is based on a national sample of 1,011 adults from Ipsos’ Canadian online panel who were interviewed online.
More information on keeping your home tidy and as safe as possible is available online at www.duracellfiresafety.com or www.safeathome.ca.
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