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.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

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

💻 Boil Water FAQ

This website from VDH provides guidance to the general public on why a boil water advisory may be issued and what to do during an advisory. It includes many FAQs organized by topic.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Severe Weather + Household Safety

💡 Bookmark + reference when needed

 Added: 06.11.24

🖨️ Wash Your Hands Poster

This 1-page infographic from VDH gives simple visual + text instructions on how to properly wash your hands to prevent the spread of germs. 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

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

Added 05.06.24

🖨️ 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.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

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

 Added: 07.07.23

🧰 Clean Hands Social Media Toolkit

This toolkit from VDH offers 5 social media graphics for healthy hand washing. Post copy is also included! Messaging includes keeping your hands clean, using hand sanitizer if you don't have access to soap and water, scrubbing for 20 seconds, teaching kids to wash properly, and keeping clean hands when traveling.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

💡 Print + post, share online, or add to newsletters and emails.

 Added: 05.29.24

🧰 CDC Life is Better with Clean Hands Campaign 

CDC's Life is Better with Clean Hands campaign was designed to motivate adults to make clean hands part of their daily lives. The campaign resources were designed to help raise awareness about the importance of handwashing at key times in both homes and public settings, such as before cooking or after using the bathroom. Download and share them to help spread the word and encourage handwashing within your community.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

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

 Added: 05.21.24

🖨️ CDC Wash Your Hands Poster

This 1-page poster from CDC gives simple visual + text instructions on how to properly wash your hands to prevent the spread of germs. 

🎙️ Available in Spanish, Arabic, English, French, Creole, Portuguese, Urdu + Vietnamese

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

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

Added 05.29.24

🖨️ 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.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 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

🧰 CDC Radon Toolkit

This toolkit from CDC provides communications resources that can be downloaded or printed. The sample social media messages can be used on X, Facebook, and Instagram. Also included are print materials, webinars, testimonials, and additional resources.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

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

Added: 05.21.24

💻 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

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

💡 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

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

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

Added: 08.11.23