Step1
One of the most important safety tools is a smoke alarm. You should install multiple smoke alarms throughout your home, ensuring that you have alarms near the bedrooms and on each floor. To ensure that your smoke alarms work properly, you should check the alarms once a month. Batteries should be changed once a year.
Step2
Another important safety tool for you home during the winter months is a carbon monoxide detector. Since you will be using a heat source within an enclosed space, the risk of the air becoming contaminated with carbon monoxide increases.
Be sure to know the signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. These include headache, fatigue, shortness of breath, and dizziness.
Just as with smoke alarms, you should install carbon monoxide alarms near the bedrooms and on each floor of your home. Also check these alarms once per month and change batteries once per year.
If your carbon monoxide alarm goes off, you should reset the alarm, call the fire department, and move to an area that provides fresh air - either outside the home or sit near an open window. If you experience the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, you should seek medical care.
Step3
Your home is just like your vehicle. You should have have a regular maintenance plan. Before winter arrives, you should have all of your heating sources inspected and given a "tune-up" by a professional.
Step4
Safety tips for portable space heaters. Place space heater at least 3 feet from anything that can burn, such as furniture, bedding or clothing; never hang clothes over a space heater to dry; never leave children unattended in a room where a space heater is in use.
Step5
Safety tips for kerosene heaters. Use only the fuel recommended for the heater; to reduce the chance of carbon monoxide build-up, be sure that the room where the kerosene heater is used is properly ventilated by either keeping the door of the room open to the other part of the house or by keep a window in the room slightly open; when you need to refuel a kerosene heater, turn the heater off, let it cool down and take it outside to fill with kerosene.
Step6
Safety tips for fireplace or wood-burning stoves. See Step 3. Your fireplace should be inspected and cleaned each year before use. The chimney connection and flue for a wood-burning stove should be inspected and cleaned each year before use.
B. When you have a fire going, you should have the flue open and have a sturdy fireplace screen in place.
C. Only burn untreated wood in your fireplace. Burning paper or pine branches can result in burning pieces floating out of the chimney and could ignite your roof, your neighbor's roof, or trees.
D. If you use a wood-burning stove, be sure that it is placed on an approved stove board. This will protect your floor from heat and coals that could cause the floor to ignite.
Step7
Never use your oven or stove range as a source of heat.
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