2.2 Safety in the Home

• Common home accidents and injuries, and their causes
• Preventing accidents in the home
• The First Aid kit and its contents
• First Aid for common injuries (burns, cuts, fractures, choking, fainting, etc.)
• Safe disposal of used First Aid materials

• explain causes of accidents and injuries at home
• describe the contents of the First Aid kit
• carry out First Aid for various injuries at home
• appreciate the importance of observing safety measures at home

“How can we ensure safety in the home?”

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1. Home accidents and their prevention
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The common accidents and injuries that happen at home, their causes, and how to prevent them - the foundation of a safe home.
2. The First Aid kit and basic First Aid
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   What First Aid is, the contents of a First Aid kit, the basic first-aid steps for common injuries, and the safe disposal of used materials.
3. Fire safety around the jiko and open fire
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How cooking fires start in Kenyan homes, how to stop them, and what to do if cloth or fat catches.
4. Paraffin, lamps and kerosene stoves
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How paraffin poisons, burns and starts fires in Kenyan homes, and the storage and lighting habits that stop it.
5. Electricity, open wiring and sockets
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How shock and electrical fires start in Kenyan homes, and the dry-hands, sound-wiring habits that prevent them.
6. Preventing falls in the home
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Why falls are the commonest home accident, who is most at risk, and the tidy-dry-lit habits that stop them.
7. Preventing poisoning at home
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Medicines, paraffin, bleach and pesticides as household poisons, and the lock-label-original-container rules that keep them from mouths.
8. Child safety in a Kenyan home
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A toddler-height scan of heat, water, poison, electricity, falls and choking, and why supervision in seconds matters more than gadgets.
9. Kitchen safety: knives, glass and hot fat
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How cuts and kitchen burns happen at the sufuria, and the slow-hands, inward-handle habits that prevent them.
10. Preventing drowning and choking at home
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Why a bucket, tank or latrine pit can drown a child, and how small foods and plastic bags choke or suffocate.
11. First Aid for burns and scalds
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Cool, cover, get help - the first steps for jiko burns, hot-fat burns and hot-liquid scalds, and the Kenyan treatments to refuse.
12. First Aid for bleeding and electric shock
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Pressure to stop a cut bleeding, and the switch-off-then-help rule when electricity is the cause.
13. First Aid for choking, fainting, fractures and sprains
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Back blows for choking, legs-up for fainting, do-not-move for fractures, RICE for sprains, and lean-forward for a nosebleed.
14. Improvising a First Aid kit and disposing of used materials
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    How to build a kit from local materials, throw used dressings away safely, restock, and pull prevention plus First Aid into one home plan.