BABY SAFETY  

• Never leave a baby or child alone in a car. Not even to run into a store for "just a minute."  In warm or hot weather, the interior of a vehicle quickly overheats putting your child at risk.  Cracking the windows open an inch or two will not keep the interior from overheating. 
• Do not allow long cords (as from window blinds or draperies) to dangle. A small child may become entangled in a cord and be at risk for strangulation. 
• Do not leave a partially filled bucket of water where a toddler can accidentally topple into it. A child can quickly drown in a very small amount of water. 
• Never leave a baby or small child alone in a bath. If you must answer the door or telephone, take your child with you. 
• Put your baby to sleep on his back or side in a crib with a firm mattress and without loose, soft bedding. This will reduce the risk of suffocation and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Also, never put babies to sleep on adult beds. 
• Use a sturdy crib that has no missing or loose hardware. The mattress should fit the crib without excess space between it and the crib sides. This will help prevent your baby from becoming trapped between the mattress and crib and suffocating. 
• Do not place baby furniture- changing table or crib- near window blind or curtain cords to avoid danger of strangulation. 
• Install safety gates to block stairways to help prevent falls. 
• Cover electrical outlets with safety plugs to help prevent electrical shocks.
• Install smoke detectors on each floor of your home, especially near sleeping areas and change the batteries each year. 
• Keep all small objects, including toys, parts of toys, and balloons away from young children who tend to put anything into their mouths, to prevent risk of choking. 
• Never leave your baby alone in a highchair and always use the safety straps to help prevent falls. 
• Always check the temperature of bath water before putting your baby in to bathe. 
• Use your stove’s back burners and keep pot handles turned to the back of the stove to prevent burns to curious toddlers. 
• Keep medicines and cleaning products in containers with safety caps and locked away from children to help prevent poisonings. 
• Lock up household cleaning products, knives, guns, matches, and plastic bags in a household that has children.
  

BABY MONITORS
The statistics don’t lie. The No. 1 cause of death among infants and toddlers is preventable household accidents. Each year in the United States, approximately 6,000 children die and another 120,000 are seriously injured or permanently disabled due to preventable household accidents.

• Using a baby monitor is just one of many things you need to do to child proof your home.
• Set up baby monitor so that there is a clear, unobstructed view of your baby.
• Always keep the baby receiver with you when monitoring your sleeping baby.
• You should never leave your baby unattended, even for the shortest moment.

HIDDEN NANNY, SURVEILLANCE AND SECURITY CAMERAS

• Set up camera or camera’s to maximize surveillance area.
• Use multiple cameras to monitor different rooms or large areas.
• Make sure all equipment (recorder) is turned on and power supply/batteries are functional.

Alcohol Safety

• All 50 states and the District of Columbia have per se laws defining it as a crime to drive with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at or above a proscribed level, 0.08 percent.

  License suspension or revocation traditionally follows conviction for alcohol-impaired driving. Under a procedure called administrative license suspension, licenses are taken before conviction when a driver fails or refuses to take a chemical test. Because administrative license suspension laws are independent of criminal procedures and are invoked right after arrest, they've been found to be more effective than traditional post-conviction sanctions. Forty-one states and the District of Columbia have administrative license suspension laws.

  Forty-five states permit some offenders to drive only if their vehicles have been equipped with ignition interlocks. These devices analyze a driver's breath and disable the ignition if the driver has been drinking.

  In 30 states, multiple offenders may forfeit vehicles that are driven while impaired by alcohol.

  Forty-three states and Washington D.C. have laws prohibiting the driver, passengers or both from possessing an open container of alcohol in the passenger compartment of a vehicle.

  State	BAC Defined as illegal per se	Administrative license suspension 1st offense?1	Restore driving privileges during suspension?1,2	Do penalties include interlock/forfeiture?3	Open container laws
  Alabama	0.08	90 days	no	no/no	driver/passenger
  Alaska	0.08	90 days	after 30 days	yes/yes	driver
  Arizona	0.08	90 days	after 30 days	yes/yes	driver/passenger
  Arkansas	0.08	120 days	yes	yes/yes	--
  California	0.08	4 months	after 30 days	yes/yes	driver/passenger
  Colorado	0.08	3 months	yes	yes/no	--
  Connecticut	0.08	90 days	yes	no/no	--
  Delaware	0.08	3 months	no	yes/no	--
  District of Columbia	0.08	2-90 days	yes	yes/no	driver/passenger
  Florida	0.08	6 months	after 30 days	yes/yes	driver/passenger

   

  State	BAC Defined as illegal per se	Administrative license suspension 1st offense?1	Restore driving privileges during suspension?1,2	Do penalties include interlock/forfeiture?3	Open container laws
  Georgia	0.08	1 year	yes	yes/yes	driver/passenger
  Hawaii	0.08	3 months	after 30 days	yes/no	driver/passenger
  Idaho	0.08	90 days	after 30 days	yes/no	driver/passenger
  Illinois	0.08	3 months	after 30 days	yes/yes	driver/passenger
  Indiana	0.08	180 days	after 30 days	yes/no	driver4
  Iowa	0.08	180 days	after 90 days	yes/no	driver/passenger
  Kansas	0.08	30 days	no	yes/no	driver
  Kentucky	0.08	--	--	yes/yes