Each year in Metropolitan France, the accidents in the home cause approximately: 20000 dead (either 3,6  % of the deaths) including 340 children: 80000 died in the European Union and several million died in the world. One also speaks about accident of the everyday life (AcVC).

The leading causes are (the number of deaths indicated is for France in 1999):

• falls (: 10520 died, of which 95  % are people of more than 65 years)
• suffocation (: 3543 dead)
• Burn S (: 1000 died, including 460 in fires)
• Intoxication (758 died, 600 by drugs, 158 by other substances and gas)
• Drowning (547 dead)

With: 400000 doctor visits (of which: 10000 at the hospital), the burns represent 80  % of the accidents in the home.

Prevention of the domestic accidents

Electric risk

Risk fire

In France, the domestic fires make: : 10000 victims per annum (either approximately 16 victims for: 100000 inhabitants), including 460 death (0,74 for: 100000 hab.). The majority of the accidents are declared the day, but the majority of deaths take place the night. A domestic fire on four is due to an electric installation defective.

In Canada in 1999, one counted: 55169 fires involving 388 deaths (1,2 for: 100000 hab.) and: 2287 wounded, of which: 22150 domestic fires having involved 284 deaths (0,9 for: 100000 hab.).

In the United States in 2001, deaths by fire accounted for 1,34 died for: 100000 inhabitants, of which 80  % in residence.

Conformity of the installations electric and gas, state of the apparatuses, storage and use of the flammable products, brushing of the chimneys.

Certain countries, like the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States, made compulsory the fire detector installation of at the private individuals, which made it possible to reduce approximately 50  % the number of deaths.

Forecast: to extinguish a fire of fryer, a gas fire, extinguisher, evacuation of the residence, alert early with the firemen.

; See also

• Establishment receiving from the public

Food poisonings

In France, one estimates that there is approximately: 250000 with: 750000 food poisonings per annum (either 400 with: 1210 for: 100000 inhabitants), of which approximately: 70000 were the subject of a consultation to the urgencies (113 for: 100000 hab.) and: 15000 people were hospitalized (24 for: 100000 hab.). They cause approximately 400 dead per annum (0,65 for: 100000 hab). With the the United States, one counts approximately 76 million intoxications more (either: 26000 for: 100000 inhabitants!), and more than 2 million to the the United Kingdom (close to: 3400 for: 100000 hab.).

The prevention against food poisonings concerns the action of the State primarily, by setting up a service of day before Vétérinaire to supervise the agro-alimentary chain since the breeding and the culture until conditioning in store or the preparation while restoring, equipped with a capacity of inspection and repression; also by setting up an obligation of traceability (identification of the batches of foodstuffs to be able to withdraw them in the event of discovered from a problem).

On behalf of the professionals, it is advisable to adopt measures of strict hygiene as well as a monitoring of the risks.

For the private individuals, it is necessary to observe the conditions of storage of food (expiry date, temperature of the refrigerator, not recongeler a defrosted food, to throw inflated preserves) and of elementary hygiene (to wash the hands before preparing a meal and eating, to clean the kitchen utensils and the crockery, to de-ice and disinfect the refrigerator regularly, to put waste in a dustbin which will be emptied by the municipal services).

See the detailed article Food poisoning.

See the article to detail Low temperature.

Young children

The medicamentous intoxications constitute the first cause of accident in the home for the children of less than four years in France.

Ingestion and inhalation of object (standards for the toys, peanuts, bored stoppers of pen).

Défenestration

Ingestion and inhalation of toxic products or drugs, burns chemical (identification of the bottles, wall cupboard closed or out of reach children).

Electric risk: socket cover.

Thermal burns: tails of the pans.

drownings in private swimming pools, monitoring on the beach

See too

• Prevention

References