Holiday Entertaining Safety Checklist
Use the tips on this checklist to ensure that your home is ready for all of the festive activities the holiday season brings. Fire Safety: Test your smoke alarms monthly and make sure that your house is protected by an adequate number of working alarms. Smoke alarms should be located inside each bedroom, outside each […]
Home Fire Safety Checklist for Older Adults
Use this checklist to help find and correct fire safety hazards in your home before they can start a fire or injure someone. The checklist includes steps for reviewing: Smoke Alarms Fire Escape Plans Kitchens Electrical Switches and Outlets Electrical Cords Electrical Panel Heating Equipment If you are unable to complete of the items […]
Give Your Home an Electrical Safety Checkup
Just as regular wellness checkups are critical for maintaining your health, routine safety checkups are critical for the safety of your home. Use ESFI’s handy Electrical Safety Checkup list to ensure that you can identify and correct potential electrical hazards around your home before an electrical fire or incident can result. Regularly check […]
What Does a Tamper Resistant Receptacle (TRR) Do?
Tamper resistant receptacles (TRRs) provide a simple, permanent solution for preventing common childhood shock and electrical burn injuries caused by tampering with a wall outlet. Unprotected outlets are a hazard for small children. Serious injuries result when common household objects are pushed into the slots. TRRs replace standard outlets to protect children from injury. A […]
Q & A: Tamper Resistant Receptacles
Located in practically every room in every home, electrical outlets and receptacles represent a constant and real danger wherever young children are found. Tamper resistant receptacle (TRR) technology provides a simple, affordable, permanent solution to help prevent childhood shock and burn injuries caused by tampering with wall outlets. What are tamper resistant receptacles, or TRRs? […]
Tamper Resistant Outlets: Children’s Safety Public Service Announcement
The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) has good news for parents, grandparents, and caregivers. You can protect your children from being among the nearly 7 children a day who are treated in hospitals for injuries associated with electrical outlets. Childproofing your outlets is easy – and inexpensive – with the use of Tamper Resistant Outlets. […]
Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter (AFCI): Advanced Electrical Fire Protection for the Home
Arc fault circuit interrupters (AFCIs) are advanced safety devices that can prevent electrical fires before they even have a chance to start. AFCI Facts Many home electrical fires are started by arcing faults. Arcing faults happen when electrical wiring becomes damaged, stressed, overheated or worn. Wiring inside the wall can be damaged by nails, screws, […]
Q & A: Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters
Now more than ever, our homes are being dramatically transformed by in the introduction of new electrical devices. Unfortunately, the electrical systems of many existing homes are simply overwhelmed by these modern electrical demands, putting them at greater risk of arc faults and arc-induced fires. What is an arc fault? An arc fault is a […]
AFCI Virtual Demonstration
Each year in the United States, arcing faults are responsible for starting more than 30,000 home fires. These fires kill and injure hundreds of people, and cause over $750 million in property damage. Many of these fires can be prevented by arc fault circuit interrupters, or AFCIs.
Home Electrical Fires
Facts and Statistics Home electrical fires account for an estimated 51,000 fires each year, nearly than 500 deaths, more than 1,400 injuries, and $1.3 billion in property damage. Electrical distribution systems are the third leading cause of home structure fires. Each year in the United States, arcing faults are responsible for starting more than 28,000 […]
PSA para seguridad con el generador portátil
La ESFI pide los dueños y operadores de los generadores portátiles a ser consciente de la seguridad. No será uno de los aproximadamente 75 personas que van a morir este año por el monóxido de carbon asociado con el uso de los generadores. Entendimiento de los peligros asociados con los generadores portátiles puede salvar su […]
Demonstración virtual de seguridad para el generador portátil (Spanish)
Un generador portátil puede ser un instrumento poderoso durante un apagón o un desastre natural, sino que también puede ser muy peligroso – aun mortale – si no está instalado y operado correctamente. En promedio, 75 personas mueren en los EEUU cada año por el monóxido de carbon asociado con el uso de los generadores. […]