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Decorative and fragranced candles may be an attractive addition to your home décor, but if used improperly, they can be a serious fire hazard.

In addition to being a fire hazard, improperly used candles can generate a significant amount of soot. This soot can damage the walls, floors and ceilings of your home as well as your personal belongings.

According to study of candle fires by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), by far, most candle fires were caused by combustibles being too close to the candle. The next most common cause of candle fires was due to the candle falling over or being knocked over by wind, doors, children or pets.

Safety Tips

• Keep candles a minimum of 1 foot, in all directions, from flammable and combustible items such as curtains or bedding. Make sure curtains cannot be blown over the candle by wind.
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People of all ages go backpacking as it provides an ideal way to save money, see the world, and make friends along the way. Typically, backpackers avoid expensive hotels in city centers and opt for campsites, hostels, or cheap bed & breakfast hotels. If this is your style read on as this article will save you money and help make your traveling safer and more enjoyable.

Here are some simple things that backpackers can do to travel more safely and avoid illness in just about any part of the world. Follow the tips below and you will greatly reduce the risk of a mishap:
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1. Keep emergency numbers on every phone; include fire, police, your doctor(s), ambulance service and the poison control hotline.
2. Make a family emergency plan.
3. Make a first aid kit for your home.
4. Make sure your house number is visible from the street.
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Most people choose modern air travel as a routine method of traveling quickly over a long distance. You think that traveling by air is becoming safer in our modern age than traveling by car. The fact is fatalities per 100 millions passenger journey are, on average, 4.5 for cars, 2.7 for trains, and 55 for planes! This means you are 12 times more likely to die on a commercial jet compared to a car, and 20 times more likely to die on a commercial jet compared to a train. Base on it, you realize that flying on a modern airline jet, then, is not safe as we would like to believe. But it’s not all gloom and doom. In fact, 80% of airline accidents are survivable if you do the right things. Most air crash fatalities and injuries can be avoided by taking certain simple precautions. These are tips that are generally recommended by airlines:

1. Fly on non-stop routings

Most accidents occur during the take-off, climb, descent, and landing phase of flights so flying non-stop would reduce exposure to these most accident prone phase of flight.
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First aid kit can be purchased with most necessary items already included from any good pharmacy - however, you can add to what is supplied and/or make up your own personal kit. Every individual has different needs according to their environment and personal life, so while you can follow the advice about a first aid kit and its contents, it is worth remembering that you might need to add other items vital for your own.

A first aid kit should be clearly marked First Aid. The current international symbol for first aid is a white cross on a green background (other indicators for first aid include the traditional Red Cross symbol on a white background and vice versa).

A first aid kit should contain the following:

a. A first aid manual
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