As a trial lawyer who has been practicing for over 20 years, I think about safety quite a bit. A lot of us think of our home as a place of comfort and a place to “get away from it all.” However, according to the National Safety Counsel (2003) reports, 1 out of every 19 people experience an injury in their home each year, and there are more than 54,000 people in the United States who die each year as a result of an accidental home injury.
According to the Home Safety Counsel’s research, almost one-half of all Americans have not taken a single action to prevent injuries in any area of their home. I encourage you to go to the Home Safety Counsel web site to look at the different home safety tips that will help protect, you, me, our children, our parents, and our visitors from injuries in our home. At the end of the day, common sense tells us that prevention is better than a cure.
Richard J. Arsenault, 2011
