Download or read book Accidents in the Home written by Tessa Hadley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful literary debut chronicles a year in the life of one thoroughly modern family--a web of marriages, divorces, half siblings, and stepchildren that expands with every new connection and betrayal.
Download or read book Household Accidents A Guide through Symptoms Actions Preventions written by M. Usman and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Preface Chapter # 1- Introduction Chapter # 2- Falling Getting back on your feet Being safe than sorry Chapter # 3- Electric shock Aftermath of the shock Tackling the shocked individual Let the shock be grounded forever Chapter # 4- Poisoning How do you know the signs of poisoning? Battling out the poison Keeping the venom at bay Chapter # 5- Household burns Know your burns Adding relief to fire Keeping your distance with the blazing fames Chapter # 6- Conclusion How to Do CPR? References Author Bio Publisher Preface Our lives are filled with commonplace incidents and accidents as we revolve around the constant day to day activities, which have become a part of our routine. Sometimes this journey treads on some dangerous roads as we come across the domestic battles with electricity, fire, and toxic substances. Household accidents take numerous forms and sizes, but we have to tackle them and depending upon the size of the attacks we can find the defendants in our homes.We just have to know where to look and this is exactly what this book aims to do. We plan on giving you the weapons for combating these tricky and intimidating opponents. This book deals with four basic broad categories of accidents: falling, burning, electric shocks, and accidently getting poisoned by any of the various toxic substances ever present in a common house. We cannot ensure your safety, but after going through this we are sure that depending upon the level of steps that you can endorse, you may be able to help yourself and the loved ones around you. The layout of this book is in such a manner that it introduces you with an incident and gives you its symptoms whenever you come across it and then tells you what plan of action you ought to take. Our advice does not end with your talking control of the incident, but moves on to at an even more important step which is the way to keep that incident at bay for the rest of your life. We provide you with tips and plans to prevent that accident from taking place again to protect the rest of your fate and actions. Even though accidents are a matter of fate it is important that we try and do the best we can for our family and ourselves before leaving it to our unforeseeable future.
Download or read book WHO Housing and Health Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines' implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.
Download or read book Preventing Home Accidents written by Dan Hannan and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the perception that the home is a safe environment, a person is ten times more likely to sustain a serious injury or die at home as a result of an accident than in the course of their employment. This book will help homeowners combat those odds by providing information adapted from proven techniques used by safety professionals. Filled with ancedotal descriptions and examples, the book offers much more than “safety tips” as it educates the homeowner in how to control risk through hazard identification. Information is concisely organized, uniformly formatted, and supported by high quality images. Chapter topics include fall hazards (roofs, ladders, stairs, etc.), electrical safety, fire prevention, hand and power tool safety, emergency planning, and others. Added value can be found in the self-inspection forms or “cheat-sheets” located at the end of each chapter that the reader can copy to complete their own home safety audit. A collection of simple usable safety techniques directed specifically to homeowners like this does not currently exist. The target audience is the general public with sales offered through book retail stores, building material suppliers (i.e. Home Depot) and possibly homeowner insurance companies. Chapter sponsorship opportunities are being pursued through featured products, i.e. “This chapter on ladder safety brought to you by Werner Ladders,” “This chapter on power tool safety brought to you by DeWalt,” etc., and supporting product imagery for these chapters would feature those manufacturers’ products. There is a statistical gap between what we think we know and what we actually know about home safety. Home safety accidents disable more than 12 million people in the home every year and are the fifth leading cause of death. Forty-five percent of all unintentional deaths occur in and around the home environment, claiming the lives of children, aging parents, spouses, partners, and friends making the home environment one of the most hazardous environments we inhabit. But how can we expect to protect ourselves and the ones we love if we aren't even aware there is a problem? Hannan says 75% of all unintentional injuries and deaths in the home hinge on our behavior, more specifically, on the decisions we make. And the first and most important home safety decision we should make is to improve our hazard recognition skills and become more safety conscious. Homeowner's can't rely on product recalls or state and federal agencies to keep them and their loved ones safe in the home. Unlike other safety campaigns seen in our communities, the policing and protection of our home environment depends entirely on the homeowner. This book offers simple techniques to raise home-safety awareness and improve our abilities to recognize hazards, correct hazards and prevent unintentional accidents from occurring in the home. Each chapter of has high quality images to illustrate safety procedures; identifies problems and hazards in the home; recommends safety practices to assist homeowners in identifying hazards; gives action items for proactive prevention of accidents; has a safety inspection checklist allowing homeowners to be thorough and organized in their approach to home safety; and lists a reference section providing links and other resources for additional related safety information.
Download or read book Preventing Home Accidents written by Dan Hannan and published by Hunter House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents tips on how to avoid accidents in the home by creating an emergency plan, and identifying fall, electrical, chemical, fire, and power tool hazards.
Download or read book Uniform Definitions of Home Accidents written by United States. Public Health Service. Bureau of State Services and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Household Accidents written by M. Usman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Preface Chapter # 1- Introduction Chapter # 2- Falling Getting back on your feet Being safe than sorry Chapter # 3- Electric shock Aftermath of the shock Tackling the shocked individual Let the shock be grounded forever Chapter # 4- Poisoning How do you know the signs of poisoning? Battling out the poison Keeping the venom at bay Chapter # 5- Household burns Know your burns Adding relief to fire Keeping your distance with the blazing fames Chapter # 6- Conclusion How to Do CPR? References Author Bio Publisher Preface Our lives are filled with commonplace incidents and accidents as we revolve around the constant day to day activities, which have become a part of our routine. Sometimes this journey treads on some dangerous roads as we come across the domestic battles with electricity, fire, and toxic substances. Household accidents take numerous forms and sizes, but we have to tackle them and depending upon the size of the attacks we can find the defendants in our homes.We just have to know where to look and this is exactly what this book aims to do. We plan on giving you the weapons for combating these tricky and intimidating opponents. This book deals with four basic broad categories of accidents: falling, burning, electric shocks, and accidently getting poisoned by any of the various toxic substances ever present in a common house. We cannot ensure your safety, but after going through this we are sure that depending upon the level of steps that you can endorse, you may be able to help yourself and the loved ones around you. The layout of this book is in such a manner that it introduces you with an incident and gives you its symptoms whenever you come across it and then tells you what plan of action you ought to take. Our advice does not end with your talking control of the incident, but moves on to at an even more important step which is the way to keep that incident at bay for the rest of your life. We provide you with tips and plans to prevent that accident from taking place again to protect the rest of your fate and actions. Even though accidents are a matter of fate it is important that we try and do the best we can for our family and ourselves before leaving it to our unforeseeable future.
Download or read book World Report on Child Injury Prevention written by M. M. Peden and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2008 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child injuries are largely absent from child survival initiatives presently on the global agenda. Through this report, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and many partners have set out to elevate child injury to a priority for the global public health and development communities. It should be seen as a complement to the UN Secretary-General's study on violence against children released in late 2006 (that report addressed violence-related or intentional injuries). Both reports suggest that child injury and violence prevention programs need to be integrated into child survival and other broad strategies focused on improving the lives of children. Evidence demonstrates the dramatic successes in child injury prevention in countries which have made a concerted effort. These results make a case for increasing investments in human resources and institutional capacities. Implementing proven interventions could save more than a thousand children's lives a day.--p. vii.
Download or read book An Investigation of the Causes of Home Accidents written by University of Michigan. Department of Public Health Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Safety Council Injury Facts written by National Safety Council and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occupational Injuries Statistics from Household Surveys and Establishment Surveys written by Karen Taswell and published by International Labor Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides guidance for national labour statisticians engaged in or proposing to start the compilation of statistics on occupational injuries through household surveys or establishment surveys.
Download or read book Careful written by Steve Casner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gripping, page-turning material . . . a new way of thinking about survival in a world filled with hazards and distractions.” —Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of Habit A safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think we are, and what we can do about it. As doctors and medical researchers work busily to extend our lives, more people each year are figuring out ways to cut them short. In fact, after a hundred years of steady decline, the rate at which people are being injured (or worse) in everyday accidents is increasing. Blame car crashes, pedestrian fatalities, home-improvement projects gone wrong, medical mistakes, home fires—not to mention all the crazy things that kids are into these days. And the problem seems to be spinning out of control. Steve Casner has devoted his career to studying the psychology of safety, and he knows there’s not a safety warning we won’t ignore or a foolproof device we can’t turn into an implement of disaster. Casner details the psychological traps that prevent us from being more careful. They’re the same whether you’re a pilot, a Hollywood stuntwoman, a parent, or the owner of a clogged dishwasher you’re trying to fix with a screwdriver. Then he shows us gripping real examples of how and when injuries happen, so we know exactly what we should really be worrying about. Careful arms readers with the latest science on how our sometimes fallible minds work, with countless takeaways to incorporate at home, at work, and everywhere in between. This book will help us keep our fingers attached in the kitchen, our kids afloat at the pool, and our teens safe behind the wheel, and demonstrates the many other ways we can maximize our chances of getting through the day in one piece.
Download or read book How to Stop Home Accidents Accident Prevention Conference written by United States. Department of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Domestic Accidents written by Edward Maurice Backett and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home Accident Prevention written by Frederick S. Kent and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Accidents written by Chuck Wendig and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror' Adam Christopher 'A rich, rewarding tale' The Guardian ____________________________________________________________________________ A family returns to their hometown - and to the dark past that haunts them still - in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers When Nate's father dies, he leaves behind a final gift for his son: his childhood home. Married now, Nate decides to move in with his wife, Maddie, and their son, Oliver, seeking peace from the chaos of the city. But it doesn't take long before things get strange in the night and even stranger by day. Because Nate was a child being abused by his father, and has never told his family. Because Maddie was a little girl who saw something she shouldn't have. Because something sinister, something hungry, walks in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of this town in rural Pennsylvania... And now, what happened all those years ago is happening again, and this time, it is happening to Oliver. When he meets a strange boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic, he has no idea that what comes next will put his family at the heart of a battle of good versus evil. ____________________________________________________________________________ 'The dread, the scope, the pacing, the turns-I haven't felt all this so intensely since The Shining' - Stephen Graham Jones 'Universally horrifying and viscerally intimate, Wendig brilliantly uses The Book of Accidents to explore a painful truth: in the end, we all haunt ourselves' - Kiersten White
Download or read book Accidents of Nature written by Harriet McBryde Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world while attending a summer camp for children with disabilities.
