Cleaning the house is an easy way to stay healthy, unless you manage to kill yourself doing it. These are the cleaning dangers you face when sprucing up - and the way to protect or respond to each one.
This is the mother of all cleaning mishaps, and hopefully your mother told not to do it. There are a lot of cleaning supplies out there with pretty clever names. The only way to know for sure that you're not mixing up a weapon of mass destruction is to read those labels.
It can be easy to get caught up in the act of cleaning spaces and forget to clean ourselves. Be careful not to move the nasty little critters that live in your bathroom to the kitchen counter. The best prevention for spreading disease is to wash your hands - thoroughly and often.
Besides mixing bleach and ammonia, there are plenty of other household chemicals that can cause damage. Many of them can be absorbed through the skin or chemically burn layers of the skin. Use rubber gloves to protect your hands and long sleeves to protect your arms. Don't forget to maintain the gloves, either. Worn and cracked rubber gloves don't offer much protection.
Now that we've protected our skin, let's protect our eyes as well.
Eye protection would help keep cleaning agents out of your eyes. In case you still manage to hold that blue glass cleaner backwards and squirt it into your eye, make sure you know how to flush out your peepers.
We've successfully handled household haz-mat, just to fall off the ladder trying to get those six-year-old spider webs in the corner of the entryway. Practice proper ladder safety to keep from breaking a leg.
