Household Safety

🧰 Food Safety Toolkits

Summertime brings BBQs, picnics, and packed lunches. Keep yourself and others safe by sharing items from this resource, which includes social media shareables from VDH + CDC along with suggested post copy. Also included are flyers + posters for several related topics.

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails.

Added: 07.11.23

🖨️ How to Wash Your Hands 

This 1-page infographic from VDH gives simple visual + text instructions on how to properly wash your hands. Space is included at the bottom of the page to add your own LDH information and/or logo.

📌 This can be found in Back-to-School, COVID-19, and Household Safety

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

💡 Print + post, share online, or send to doctor's offices + community partners.

 Added: 07.07.23

🧰 CDC Handwashing Social Media Library 

Share CDC’s sample social media messages and graphics on your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social media platforms to help promote hand hygiene in your community. Use the hashtag #KeepHandsClean.

🎙️    Available in English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Household Safety, and Respiratory Health

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 12.01.23

🖨️ Life is Better with Clean Hands Fact Sheet 

These print-ready materials from CDC can be downloaded, printed, and distributed to help raise awareness about handwashing in public areas, such as public restrooms, kitchen, and workplaces. The full campaign toolkit can be found online.

🎙️ Sheet 1 (Handwashing) available in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, + French

🎙️Sheet 2 (Stop Germs) available in English, Spanish, + French

📌 This can be found in Back to School + Household Safety

💡 Download, print, and post or share in newsletters, emails, and with community partners

Added: 12.04.23

🖨️ Lead 101 for Parents and Caregivers

This flyer provides information for parents about lead exposure from paint, soil, water, and consumer products.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

💡 Download, print, and post or share in newsletters, emails, and with community partners.

Added: 12.20.23

💻 Lead Safe VA Playlist

These short videos from VDH are great for social media. They cover risk for lead exposure, checking for hazards, and how to prevent and test for lead poisoning.

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 10.04.23

🖨️ Lead + Mental Health

This flyer provides information about the effects of lead exposure on mental health.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Household Safety + Mental Health

💡 Download, print, and post or share in newsletters, emails, and with community partners.

Added: 12.20.23

🖨️ Protect Your Family from Radon

This easy-to-read flyer from CDC provides general information about protecting your family from radon from home testing to radon and smoking.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

💡 Download, print, and post or share in newsletters, emails, and with community partners.

Added: 01.04.24

💻 Interactive Ventilation Tool

From the CDC, this tool allows users to explore how well their home may be ventilated + how to improve ventilation methods, based on customizable options - like whether or not they have a portable HEPA air cleaner, an open window, active HVAC, + so on.

🎙️ Available in English

💡 Share via newsletter or social media

2.15.22

🧰 Understanding Air Quality

This toolkit from PHCC provides a downloadable PDF + prepared social media graphics with post copy. Topics include understanding of what air quality is, how it is evaluated, + the most important indoor and outdoor safety measures to take when air quality is unhealthy.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

💡 Use the information to create social media posts, newsletters, + emails

Added: 08.11.23