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While you might like to think that your home is the safest place for you and your family to be, a huge percentage of injuries actually take place within the walls of people’s homes. When these personal injuries take place, they can end up costing you a lot of money and making it hard for your to do things like go to work or take care of those who depend on you. So to help ensure that you’re able to stay safe when spending time in your house, here are three of the most dangerous places in a person’s home and what you can do to minimize the potential for danger there.

The Bathroom

According to the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most dangerous room in a person’s house is the bathroom. Tara Parker-Pope, a contributor to the New York Times, shares that about 235,000 adults get injured in the bathroom each year. These injuries can take place in the bath or shower as well as around the toilet or just in the general bathroom area. What you can do to stop so many injuries from happening at your home is to create non-slip surfaces on the floor of your bathroom and the bath itself. You should also try to put handrails or other holds that can help steady you if you were to lose your balance.

Any Stairs

Stairs are another area of the home that can be dangerous for people of any age. Everyone knows that little children have a great risk of falling down the stairs before they’ve mastered how to go up and down them. And as you get older, your strength and balance can decrease, making stairs dangerous again. To make your stairs safer, Lisa Esposito, a contributor to U.S. News and World Report, advises that you secure the stairs with safety gates if you have small children in your home. Also, put mounted banisters or handrails all along the length of the stairs to keep people from falling off higher steps or from losing their footing or tripping, which causes a lot of injuries to people each year.

The Kitchen

After the bathroom, the kitchen is another area of the home where many personal injuries take place. When you think about it, the kitchen has quite a lot of dangerous attributes. According to Candy Sagon, a contributor to AARP, the sharp utensils, hot stove and oven, and greater potential for fires make kitchens a place to take precautions in. So to stay safe in this area, try to keep sharp objects away from the edges of counters, your stove and oven clean from debris, and the smoke alarms in the area always filled with batteries.

To help your family stay safe from injuries at home, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you recognize dangers and avoid them.


Anna Johansson

Anna is a freelance writer and researcher from the Olympia, WA area who loves to obsess about weird topics and then write about them. When she isn't writing, she is outside on her bike and comtemplating her eventual trip to graduate school.

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Anna Johansson

Anna is a freelance writer and researcher from the Olympia, WA area who loves to obsess about weird topics and then write about them. When she isn't writing, she is outside on her bike and comtemplating her eventual trip to graduate school.

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