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Home Poison Safety Checklist

Make your home safe from poisons. Go through each room of your house and make sure that all possible poisons on this list are properly closed, locked up, or stored out of reach of young children and pets.

Kitchen

  • Ant/roach/bug killers
  • Cleansers
  • Carpet/upholstery cleaners
  • Furniture polish
  • Soaps/detergents
  • Ammonia
  • Automatic dishwasher detergent
  • Drain openers
  • Metal cleaners
  • Oven cleaners
  • Pet medications

Bathroom

  • Aftershave lotion
  • Bath oil
  • Cleansers/Deodorizers
  • Drain openers
  • Hair removers
  • Mouthwash
  • Toothpaste
  • Permanent wave solution
  • Shampoo/dyes/ hair products
  • Shampoo/dyes/hair products
  • Prescription/OTC Medicines
  • Rubbing alcohol

Laundry Room

  • Bleaches
  • Laundry detergent
  • Disinfectants
  • Soap/detergents
  • Fabric softener

Bedroom

  • Cosmetics
  • Baby powder
  • Nail polish/remover
  • Jewelry cleaner
  • Perfumes/cologne
  • Cough/cold medicine
  • Sleeping medicine
  • Other medicines

Garage & Storage Areas

  • Antifreeze & windshield
  • wiper fluid
  • Gasoline
  • Lighter fluid
  • Mothballs
  • Paint remover/thinner
  • Pesticides/insecticides
  • Fertilizer
  • Weed killers
  • Pool chemicals
  • Chemicals

Plants

  • Keep house plants out of reach of young children. Know the names of plants you have in your home and in your yard.
  • Do not eat any part of an unknown plant or mushroom.

Other

  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Cigarettes /smokeless tobacco
  • Electronic cigarettes
  • Products containing marijuana /edibles
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