Category Archives: Safety Tips

Toy Report: Kids Exposed to Lead, Carcinogens, Choking Hazards

Written On December 21, 2011 By Bob Kraft

Before you let your kids open their Christmas gifts, you need to consider whether there are any hazardous toys under the tree. An Associated Press story recently quoted a report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group that found over a dozen toys on store shelves that violate federal safety standards for lead and chemicals [...]

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How to Prevent Workplace Injuries

Written On November 7, 2011 By Bob Kraft

This guest post is from Evan Fischer, a writer for http://www.pricebenowitzlaw.com, a law firm that protects the livelihood of clients who have suffered from an injury due to another person’s negligence.
It’s all fun and games until you’re dancing on the conference table on margarita Friday and you fall off and break a hip.  Okay, so most [...]

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Safety Tips for Kids, Cars, and Summer Heat

Written On August 15, 2011 By Bob Kraft

The Dallas / Fort Worth area got a very brief break last Thursday from our string of 100-degree plus days. After 40 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures, we reached “only” 97 that day. Of course we immediately went back to triple-digits on Friday. We missed breaking the 1980 record of 42 consecutive 100-degree days, but [...]

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Beat the Heat with Red Cross Safety Tips

Written On July 18, 2011 By Bob Kraft

Today will be the 17th in a row with a temperature of 100 degrees or higher in Dallas. The heat index on some of those days has been as much as 110 degrees. Exposure to temperatures such as this is dangerous, especially to young children and to the elderly.
Here are some tips on coping with [...]

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Featured Link – Get “Red Cross” Ready

Written On May 31, 2011 By Bob Kraft

Get a Kit, Make a Plan, Be Informed
Those are the basic steps of the Red Cross preparedness plan. In view of the recent weather-related disasters across the country, we should all take action to be ready for any contingency. The details on this page of the Red Cross Web site will be a great help [...]

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Five Safe Driving Tips for Winter

Written On February 1, 2011 By Bob Kraft

With the weather forecast for this week in Dallas, it’s time to bring back a post from 2008:
Heading into winter, the roads become a more dangerous place for drivers, no matter how safe your car is. In order to limit your risk, there are a number of steps you can take to ensure you’re prepared [...]

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Planning the Perfect Superbowl Party

Written On January 31, 2011 By Bob Kraft

We’re less than a week away from the Super Bowl now, and many people are firming up their plans for viewing parties. This article that I stole from the good people at MADD has some good tips for your own Super Bowl party — how to have fun and stay safe. At the MADD site [...]

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Do You Have a Roadside Emergency Kit in Your Car?

Written On September 14, 2010 By Bob Kraft

As our kids return to college, this is a good time to think about an emergency roadside kit for the car. There are plenty of lists around for what to include in an emergency kit, including one at our firm’s Web site specifically for winter driving. But I thought a recent article in the Augusta [...]

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Circuit Breaker Model is Defective and Potentially Dangerous

Written On August 27, 2010 By Bob Kraft

Here is a very short summary of a very important article from the Dallas Morning News. If you live in an older home in North Texas you need to check your circuit breaker box to make sure it’s not a Federal Pacific Stab-Lok model. I checked ours, and we’re safe, but if you do have [...]

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Embrace Life — Always Wear Your Seatbelt

Written On February 4, 2010 By Bob Kraft

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Tips to Keep Kids Safe Online

Written On February 3, 2010 By Bob Kraft

Keep computers in a common area of the home so you can monitor your child’s online activities.
Encourage your child to use nicknames rather than his or her real name when online.
Tell you child to be careful when posing for pic- tures or videos.
Remind your children that anything they post can be viewed by potentially millions [...]

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Lawn Sprinklers and Cold Weather Create Road Hazards in Dallas

Written On January 8, 2010 By Bob Kraft

Dallas is going through the coldest weather in a decade, and we’re not handling it very well. Fortunately we’ve only had a little precipitation, which did cause some problems Thursday morning, but didn’t shut down the city as ice storms usually do. We’re not going to get above freezing for a couple of days though, [...]

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Things Your Burglar Won’t Tell You

Written On January 6, 2010 By Bob Kraft

These burglary-prevention tips came to our crimewatch group through the Dallas Police Department.
1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator.
2. Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your yard last week. While I [...]

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Who Was Supposed To Be Watching Grandma?

Written On December 21, 2009 By Bob Kraft

There is a popular tune played this time of year called “Grandma Got Run Over by A Reindeer” which relates that Grandma — after drinking too much eggnog — went out into the winter cold to get her medication and was run over by a reindeer. The question is, “Who was supposed to be watching [...]

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Energy-Efficient Traffic Lights Can’t Melt Snow

Written On December 18, 2009 By Bob Kraft

Fortunately, those of us in Dallas don’t have to worry much about this problem reported by the Associated Press. Apparently in some northern cities drivers have discovered that new energy-efficient traffic lights with LED bulbs don’t burn hot enough to melt snow that accumulates around them. As a result, the lights become obscured, drivers can’t [...]

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Halloween Safety Tips

Written On October 26, 2009 By Bob Kraft

As Halloween approaches, I’m updating my Halloween Safety Tips article. Most of this is just common sense, but at Halloween, some of us seem to lose our a bit of our common sense and we do foolish (as well as ghoulish) things.
Halloween can be a very enjoyable time for kids and adults if “trick-or-treating” is [...]

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Toyota Seeks Solution to Floor Mat Issue

Written On October 1, 2009 By Bob Kraft

I’ve been writing here about the recall of Toyota and Lexus vehicles due to floor mat safety issues. Now we learn fro the Wheels blog in the New York Times that Toyota is not planning to redesign the floor mats themselves, but is looking for a solution for those drivers who do have the accelerator [...]

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Swimming Pool Safety Tips For Children

Written On August 10, 2009 By Bob Kraft

Sadly, the number of child drowning deaths in Texas reached 84 in early August of 2009, passing the previous record of 82 set in 2008. We all need to take better care of our kids when they’re near water — whether it’s a swimming pool at your own house, or a lake or ocean. Here [...]

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Loose Headstones May Pose Extreme Risk

Written On December 22, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Gruesome death of toddler, and warning of other deaths or injuries, as reported in the news release of the American Association for Justice:
The Houston Chronicle (12/19, Flood) reported, "The parents of a two-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a headstone at a funeral last week have filed a lawsuit against the Pearland cemetery," [...]

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Five Safe Driving Tips for Winter

Written On December 16, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Heading into winter, the roads become a more dangerous place for drivers, no matter how safe your car is. In order to limit your risk, there are a number of steps you can take to ensure you’re prepared for the onset of snow, sleet and ice on the roads:
•    Consider Investing in Snow TiresIf [...]

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