Safety Tips

In addition to publications, CPSC often offers safety tips as part of press releases
on (usually) seasonal topics. This is a compilation of these safety tips.

Safety Tips

Air Mattresses

Baby Sleeping Safety - Cribs/Play yards

Back to school

Backyard pools and other home areas: prevent drowning

Bicycles

Candles

Carbon monoxide

Carbon monoxide (portable heaters)

Cell phone batteries

Child drowning (pools, spas, hot tubs)

Child drowning (other in/around home hazards)

Children's health

Choking hazards to young children

College Dorm Fires

Console games/computers

Counterfeit electrical products

Cribs

Electrical safety: swimming pools, hot tubs and spas

Electrical hazards: home safety

Electrical hazards: extension cords, power strips, surge protectors

Electrical hazards: outdoor, overhead activity safety

Escalator Safety

Fire safety - mattresses

Fireplaces

Fireplaces, wood stoves, and chimneys

Fireworks

Flood hazards

Furnaces: horizontal forced-air furnaces in attics

Furniture tip-over hazards

Gasoline Containers

Grills

Hair dryers (hand-held)

Halloween

Heating: supplemental heating units

Heating: winter home heating hazards

Holiday safety

Holiday toy safety

Home hazards (top 5)

Home insulation

Hurricane/storm safety - carbon monoxide hazards

Ladder safety

Lawn and garden equipment

Magnets (small) in toys

Notebook computer safety

Older consumers

Paintball guns

Playground safety

Playpens

Poison prevention

Propane tanks

Remote-Controlled Toys

Scooters

Skis, snowboards

Smoke alarms

Smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms

Space heaters

Summer safety tips

Turkey fryers

Toy safety

Window covering safety

Windows: preventing falls

Winter sports