Week 2 of Building Safety Month 2024 focuses on how building safety impacts our everyday life and highlights the things we can do at home to stay safe. Here we share fire and water safety tips and home maintenance best practices, how to prepare for a disaster and how to plan ahead to limit damages to buildings from natural hazards in your community, and how to be more sustainable to ensure a cleaner and greener tomorrow.

Fire, Water, and Electrical Safety

Modern homes and buildings incorporate the latest building codes and are designed to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks. While building safety professionals help maintain this system, there are preventative tasks that all contribute to occupant health, occupant safety and security and overall sustainability (more on this in the last section).

Here we've listed a few brief fire safety tips, and be sure to also download and review our guides on home fire, electrical and water safety below.

• Put a smoke alarm on every level of your home, outside each sleeping area and inside every bedroom.
• Test each smoke alarm regularly. Keep batteries fresh by replacing them annually.
• Make an escape plan so everyone knows how to get out fast. Pick a meeting place outside the home where everyone will meet.
• Portable heaters need their space. Keep anything that can burn at least three feet away.
• Keep all items that can burn away from your home, clean leaves from your gutters and clear dead leaves and branches from shrubs and trees.

To learn more about this week of Building Safety Month, visit: https://www.iccsafe.org/.../building-safety.../bsm-week-2/

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