ADVANCED MERIT: HOME SAFETY
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1. Outline a home fire plan and discuss and explain it to your family.
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2. Conduct a home fire drill.
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3. Survey your home for fire hazards. (list below)
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4. Locate and learn how to turn off the following:
a. Main (and other) fuse boxes or circuit breakers.
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b. Main natural gas, LPG, or outside oil tank valves.
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c. Main water valve.
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5. Survey your home for electrical hazards. (list below)
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6. Survey your home for hazardous chemicals and poisons, and plan for proper
storage or disposal in cooperation with your parents.
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7. Survey your home for dangerous areas and conditions such as unsafe stairways,
broken glass, unprotected fans, etc. List and discuss the elimination of these
with your parents.
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8. List hazardous tools used at your home (such as lawnmower and power saws) and
outline safe operating procedures.
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9. Discuss family procedures during power failure.
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10. Assemble a list of equipment and supplies useful during home emergencies,
such as first aid kit, shovel, canned goods, etc.
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11. Demonstrate first aid for bleeding, breathing difficulties, and poisoning.
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12. Assemble a home first aid kit.
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13. Prepare a list of emergency phone numbers including local police, fire,
ambulance, family doctor, power company, family members' business phones,
etc., and write these in phone book and/or post near phone.
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