Garage Safety
Accident Prevention
Precautions and Solutions

Implementing Garage Safety precaution practices, products and services will help to keep your family from becoming a garage accident statistic. The garage is a great place to store a variety of items, but there are many potential hazards to be aware of.

Garage hazards range from tripping on a toy or slipping on a greasy floor to a silent killer like Carbon Monoxide.

Overall, Garage Safety is determined by the Garage Condition, How It Is Used and What Is Stored In It.

You can quickly determine Garage Storage Safety by requesting our free Garage Safety Checklist.

It is a great planning tool. When completed, it provides you with a list of what is needed to improve Garage Storage Safety in your garage.

Garage Safety Includes

	Identifying potential Garage Dangers
	Being Informed on Accident Prevention Methods
	Being knowledgeable about Indoor Air Pollution
	Knowing how to handle and reduce impacts of Hazardous Materials

Garage Hazards

A Hazards is defined as "A source of danger that by chance, without an apparent cause could create a mishap; especially one causing injury or death."

An accident is defined as "something going wrong.

Physical examples include an unintended collision with a object (tripping over a toy) or by a object unintentionaly falling and injuring a person.

Another example is stepping on a slippery floor that causes you to slide or fall unintentionally. Garage Dangers depend on what and how you store stuff in your garage.

According to the National Safety Council, unintentional injuries are the fifth leading cause of deaths in America.

The National Safety Council explain accidents as unplanned, unwanted and nearly always preventable events.

Hopefully your garage is a safety show place. If not, request our free Garage Safety Checklist. It is designed to help you identify Potential Hazards in your garage.

Dangerous Garage Air

Regardless of what you store, there are 4 common dangers of Air Pollution in most garages:

1/ Carbon Monoxide

2/ Radon Gas

3/ Indoor Air Pollution

4/ Hazardous Materials

Although these are not a hazard in every home, it is easy to take steps to ensure you and your family do not become a statistic of these dangers.

Accident Prevention

The National Safety Council Library is one of the most complete safety and health information resources available anywhere. They provide information that gives clear, practical guidance on injury prevention.

A good way to begin your garage Garage Accident Prevention program is to Take Inventory of everything you want to store in the garage, then create a Garage Storage Plan.

Once you have completed the Take Inventory Form, you are better able to identify which  Safe Garage Storage Items you want stored in your garage.

Having a safe place for everything and ensuring it is returned to it's place, is the best way to prevent garage accidents.

Educating your family about the importance of keeping everything in it's place is also a key element of Garage Storage Safety.