Tips for staying safe in your community and in your home
Perhaps you’ve already heard that it’s Realtor® Community Safety Week in Saskatoon. If you haven’t, let it be known that His Worship Mayor Donald Atchison has declared it so, and so it is.
You’ll be reminded that it’s Realtor® Community Safety Week by a series of safety tips airing on C95FM and Rock102. I’ve also noticed some service announcements in the Star Phoenix. The highlight event for the week is a Neighbourhood Safety Fair that happens on Saturday, September 12 from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. It will be held at Sonnenschein Way, just south of the Farmer’s Market. If you can find the time, it’s probably worth attending. Apparently, there will be children’s activities and prizes, self-defense demonstrations, home safety products and lots of good safety related information.
Whether or not you can attend you should check out a free publication that’s being offered by the City of Saskatoon. It’s called “Safe at Home” and it contains about a dozen pages of great tips for staying safe in your community and in your home. Please read it and be safe, this week and every other.
Norm Fisher
Royal LePage Saskatoon Real Estate
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September 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
“Safe at Home”. Overall the publication has a lot of good suggestions. However:
“hanging a“Beware of Dog” sign”
While this is suggested for non-pet homes, dog owners should be aware that posting such a sign will open them up to civil liability if an intruder is injured by their dog.
“Do not confront the intruder. Protect yourself by staying out of his or her way and cooperating with them. Your life is more important than your valuables, so keep yourself safe!”
Except that more often than not the person who cooperates still ends up being a victim (there was a recent home invasion in Regina where had the owner not resisted she would probably not still reside in ‘the land of the living skys’). There are other options for self defence, but one passive suggestion is to outfit your alarm system with a wireless key fob option: this can trigger a silent panic alarm that notifies both the alarm company and police to an emergency.