Top tips to help stay safe at home over the Christmas period
With Christmas festivities under way and our minds turning to other things, the Public Health Agency (PHA) is highlighting potential dangers in your home and providing helpful tips to help keep you and your loved ones safe. Over the Christmas period many of us will spend more time at home, so we need to be aware of the risk of home accidents, with many of these being preventable. Each year there are approximately 14,000 admissions to hospital in Northern Ireland as a result of unintentional injuries. Diane McIntyre from the PHA said “Accidents often occur when we’re distracted and can happen