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Button Batteries
Hoverboards
CPSC recommends that consumers, who own or use hoverboards, take these steps to reduce the risk of fire.
Outdoors
ATV
Ride safe, ride smart. Wear a helmet, keep kids off adult ATVs, and take a hands-on training course. CPSC's tips for ATV safety.
Kitchen
Install an anti-tipover bracket on your range. This helps prevent the range from tipping over and can save your family from serious injury or death.
Children can become entrapped and suffocate in older, latch-type freezers, refrigerators, dryers and coolers.
Did you know you can be electrocuted trying to repair your microwave oven? This is one job that’s best left to a professional.
Hobbies
Trampoline injuries are no fun. There are thousands reported each year. Here are the steps you can take to prevent serious trampoline injuries and deaths.
Vehicle traffic, trick riding and excessive speed can lead to collisions, loss of control and falls. Even experienced skateboarders and longboard riders have been injured or killed. Follow these important tips for safer riding.
Follow these safety suggestions to help prevent deaths and injuries associated with moveable soccer goals.
Pointed, metal lawn darts can cause serious or fatal injury. Lawn darts have been banned since 1988.
When skating, always wear safety gear, skate on a smooth, paved surface away from traffic and don’t skate at night.
This safety handbook gives guidelines for selecting and using arts and crafts materials and explains the hazards associated with arts and crafts materials.
General Information
CPSC is a federal agency that protects the public against unreasonable risks of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products. If you've had a safety problem with a consumer product, contact us at SaferProducts.gov or our Hotline.
Concerned about formaldehyde in your home? Learn how to reduce your exposure.
Children drown in bathtubs, buckets and pails, not just in pools or spas. Stay within arm’s reach when baby is in the bathtub and keep children away from buckets and pails you use for household chores.
Children can strangle in baby monitor cords. Keep all cords out of arm’s reach of babies and toddlers.
Babies can suffocate, get trapped in or fall from adult beds. The safest place for baby is a crib or play yard.
Call CPSC's Hotline to report an unsafe product, to report a product-related incident or injury, or to find out whether a product has been recalled.
Make sure to install smoke alarms in your home. Why? Because they can save your life. Which type of alarm? Both types -- ionization and photoelectric. And don't forget to develop and practice a family escape plan.
Prevent fires and burns. See and be seen. And make sure costumes are fit for safety.
Don’t say “boo” to safety on Halloween. Make sure your child’s costume is flame resistant, fits well and doesn’t obstruct his or her view.
Deadly dangers exist after a hurricane strikes. Safety tips on portable generators, candles, gasoline, charcoal and appliances.
Furniture, Furnishings and Decorations
Tempered glass is a technology that is designed to fail safely. Consumer products that use tempered glass should rupture into small, fragmented pieces, and not into larger shards if shattered.
Screens are meant to keep bugs out, not kids in. Use window guards or stops and keep furniture away from windows so little ones can’t climb near windows.
Check your tubular metal bunk beds for warning signs that have caused beds to collapse.
One child dies every two weeks when a TV, piece of furniture or an appliance falls on him or her. Anchor furniture to the wall or floor and place TVs on sturdy, low bases.
Attention teachers: don’t let your students move or play near TV-audiovisual carts. They can tip over and kill or seriously injure kids.
Each year thousands of children are injured when they fall from shopping carts. Use the cart’s seatbelt to keep your child safe.
Keep kids away from mobile folding tables often found in school cafeterias. They can tip over and seriously injure or kill children.
Electronics and Electrical
Prevent dryer fires by cleaning the dryer vent, exhaust duct and lint screen/filter periodically.
Download the Overheated Clothes Dryers Can Cause Fires safety alert in Spanish
Protect yourself and others from shock or electrocution in and around pools, hot tubs and spas.
Do you use a portable electric space heater to warm a room? Make sure it’s at least three feet away from beds, sofas, curtains and other items that can burn. Turn the space heater off before you go to bed.
GFCIs (ground fault circuit interrupters) in your home protect you from severe electrical shock.
Did you know you can be electrocuted trying to repair your microwave oven? This is one job that’s best left to a professional.
Installing AFCIs (arc fault circuit interrupters) in your home can provide enhanced protection from fires resulting from unsafe arcing and sparking in home wiring.
Never use a ladder near overhead wires. You can be electrocuted if the ladder contacts the electrical wires.
Keep kids away from paper shredders. Shredders can pull kids' little fingers into the shredder mechanism and cause severe injuries.
Installing AFCIs (arc fault circuit interrupters) in your home can provide enhanced protection from fires resulting from unsafe arcing and sparking in home wiring.
Some aluminum wiring in older homes can be a fire risk. There are several permanent repair methods for this problem.
Do not overload or used damaged extension cords. They could cause a fire.
Containers and Packaging
Children who are exposed to the chemicals in single-load liquid laundry packets are at risk of serious injury.
Clothing and Accessories
Toys with strings and straps can strangle kids. Don’t give them to young children.
Remove hood and waist drawstrings from children’s jackets, sweatshirts and hoodies. Drawstrings can catch on items and cause a child to strangle.
Make sure your child’s sleepwear is flame resistant or snug fitting. This helps prevent burn injuries.
Outdoors and Garden
Kids can fall from climbing equipment and get hurt. Never put climbing equipment inside or outside on hard surfaces such as wooden floors, cement or asphalt.
Protect yourself and others from shock or electrocution in and around pools, hot tubs and spas.
Every hunting season, hunters are killed or seriously injured from falls from treestands. Proper use of a full-body harness can prevent most incidents.
Most snow thrower injuries happen when trying to clear snow from the discharge shoot or debris from auger/collectors. Always stop the engine before trying to clear the shoot or auger.
Riding mowers should meet the latest voluntary safety standards. But take extra precautions to prevent the most common hazard scenarios, blade contact and loss of mower stability. Make sure to keep children away while you are mowing.
Walk-behind power mowers must meet federal safety standards. They are designed to prevent hand and foot contact with the blade. Make sure to keep children away while you are mowing.
Playgrounds
Kids can fall from climbing equipment and get hurt. Never put climbing equipment inside or outside on hard surfaces such as wooden floors, cement or asphalt.
Is your public playground a safe place to play? Use this simple list to check.
Keep your child from getting burned on hot playground equipment.
Cargo nets are popular on children’s playgrounds. But kids can get trapped in them if the net openings are too big.
Follow these safety tips to prevent injuries to your child on play equipment often found in fast food restaurant play areas and elsewhere.
Pools and Spas
Protect yourself and others from shock or electrocution in and around pools, hot tubs and spas.
Learn about simple steps that can save lives in and around the pool. Download and post this series of posters and share Pool Safely tips with others.
Safety tips on preventing child drownings. Fences and gates, pool covers, barriers and alarms can play a key role.
Although swimming pools are a lot of fun, they can be dangerous places if you don't Pool Safely. Enjoy this pool safely coloring page.
Bicycles
Wearing a bicycle helmet while cycling can reduce your risk of head injury. If a crash happens, the odds of being able to get back on your bike favor riders who wear a helmet.
Sports, Fitness and Recreation
Follow these safety suggestions to help prevent deaths and injuries associated with moveable soccer goals.
Carbon Monoxide
Never use portable heaters or lanterns while sleeping in enclosed areas such as tents, campers and vehicles.
Deadly dangers exist after a hurricane strikes. Safety tips on portable generators, candles, gasoline, charcoal and appliances.
Install and maintain CO alarms in your home to protect your family against the "invisible killer."
Carbon monoxide (CO) is called the "invisible killer." You cannot see or smell it, but a carbon monoxide alarm can detect CO. That is why it is so important to have CO alarms in your home.
Fire
Prevent dryer fires by cleaning the dryer vent, exhaust duct and lint screen/filter periodically.
Download the Overheated Clothes Dryers Can Cause Fires safety alert in Spanish
Check your appliances' gas connectors. Some older brass connectors for appliances can come apart, causing fires, explosions, death and injuries.
Have a kerosene heater? Make sure to use only water-clear 1-K grade kerosene. Never use gasoline.
Don’t get burned. Flammable liquid vapors are invisible, explosive and unpredictable.
Make sure to install smoke alarms in your home. Why? Because they can save your life. Which type of alarm? Both types -- ionization and photoelectric. And don't forget to develop and practice a family escape plan.
Don’t underestimate the value of smoke alarms. When it comes to a fire, your life may depend on them.
Smoke alarms save lives. They can detect a fire early, and alert consumers, giving them valuable time to escape.
Do not overload or used damaged extension cords. They could cause a fire.
Home
Tempered glass is a technology that is designed to fail safely. Consumer products that use tempered glass should rupture into small, fragmented pieces, and not into larger shards if shattered.
Prevent dryer fires by cleaning the dryer vent, exhaust duct and lint screen/filter periodically.
Download the Overheated Clothes Dryers Can Cause Fires safety alert in Spanish
Protect yourself and others from shock or electrocution in and around pools, hot tubs and spas.
Avoid tap water scalds. Lower your water heater temperature to 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Screens are meant to keep bugs out, not kids in. Use window guards or stops and keep furniture away from windows so little ones can’t climb near windows.
Screens are meant to keep bugs out, not kids in. Use window guards or stops and keep furniture away from windows so little ones can’t climb near windows.
Falls and fires are two leading causes of unintentional injuries and deaths among adults 65 and older. Make your home safer by following these tips.
Check your appliances' gas connectors. Some older brass connectors for appliances can come apart, causing fires, explosions, death and injuries.
Garage doors should have a sensor or electric eye that automatically reverses the door if someone steps into its path when it is closing. This is a federal mandatory standard.
Concerned about formaldehyde in your home? Learn how to reduce your exposure.
Children drown in bathtubs, buckets and pails, not just in pools or spas. Stay within arm’s reach when baby is in the bathtub and keep children away from buckets and pails you use for household chores.
Babies can suffocate, get trapped in or fall from adult beds. The safest place for baby is a crib or play yard.
One child dies every two weeks when a TV, piece of furniture or an appliance falls on him or her. Anchor furniture to the wall or floor and place TVs on sturdy, low bases.
Make sure to install smoke alarms in your home. Why? Because they can save your life. Which type of alarm? Both types -- ionization and photoelectric. And don't forget to develop and practice a family escape plan.
Do not overload or used damaged extension cords. They could cause a fire.
Toys
Check toys and other children’s products for plastic film coverings and remove them. The film can be a choking hazard.
Toys with strings and straps can strangle kids. Don’t give them to young children.
Keep uninflated toy balloons and pieces of broken balloons away from young children. Kids can suffocate on them.
Don’t let children put caps for toy guns in their pockets. They can ignite and burn your child.
Be selective when buying an electric toy. Follow age recommendations on packages, make sure the child is mature enough to operate the toy and supervise the toy’s use.
The lids on toy chests or other types of chests can fall and trap, injure or kill kids. Lids with hinges that keep the lid open are much safer.
How much do you know about the dangers that button batteries pose to children? Take the button battery safety quiz.
Trampoline injuries are no fun. There are thousands reported each year. Here are the steps you can take to prevent serious trampoline injuries and deaths.
Follow these safety suggestions to help prevent deaths and injuries associated with moveable soccer goals.
Pointed, metal lawn darts can cause serious or fatal injury. Lawn darts have been banned since 1988.
When skating, always wear safety gear, skate on a smooth, paved surface away from traffic and don’t skate at night.
This safety handbook gives guidelines for selecting and using arts and crafts materials and explains the hazards associated with arts and crafts materials.
Cribs
Children can strangle in baby monitor cords. Keep all cords out of arm’s reach of babies and toddlers.
Remove pillows, quilts, comforters, stuffed toys and other soft products from the crib.
Keep baby safe from suffocation and strangulation by making sure that the crib sheet fits snugly on the crib mattress.
Check to see if you or someone you know has a recalled Simplicity crib at home.
Kids and Babies
Check toys and other children’s products for plastic film coverings and remove them. The film can be a choking hazard.
Toys with strings and straps can strangle kids. Don’t give them to young children.
Keep uninflated toy balloons and pieces of broken balloons away from young children. Kids can suffocate on them.
Keep marbles, small balls and uninflated balloons away from young children, who can choke on them.
How much do you know about the dangers that button batteries pose to children? Take the button battery safety quiz.
Kids can fall from climbing equipment and get hurt. Never put climbing equipment inside or outside on hard surfaces such as wooden floors, cement or asphalt.
Follow these safety suggestions to help prevent deaths and injuries associated with moveable soccer goals.
When skating, always wear safety gear, skate on a smooth, paved surface away from traffic and don’t skate at night.
Children drown in bathtubs, buckets and pails, not just in pools or spas. Stay within arm’s reach when baby is in the bathtub and keep children away from buckets and pails you use for household chores.
Never tie string, cords, necklaces, toys or anything around a child’s neck. They can strangle. Kids and cords of any kind don’t mix.
Children can strangle in baby monitor cords. Keep all cords out of arm’s reach of babies and toddlers.
Babies can suffocate, get trapped in or fall from adult beds. The safest place for baby is a crib or play yard.
Use the safety harness whenever your child in a stroller. If not secured with the safety harness, your baby can slip through the opening between the seat and the tray and strangle.
Air mattresses aren’t for babies. They are too soft and could cause babies to suffocate.
Did you know that thousands of kids are injured every year by falling from shopping carts? Safety tips for injury-proofing your child in a shopping cart.
One child dies every two weeks when a TV, piece of furniture or an appliance falls on him or her. Anchor furniture to the wall or floor and place TVs on sturdy, low bases.
Prevent fires and burns. See and be seen. And make sure costumes are fit for safety.
Don’t say “boo” to safety on Halloween. Make sure your child’s costume is flame resistant, fits well and doesn’t obstruct his or her view.
Remove hood and waist drawstrings from children’s jackets, sweatshirts and hoodies. Drawstrings can catch on items and cause a child to strangle.
Make sure your child’s sleepwear is flame resistant or snug fitting. This helps prevent burn injuries.
