ESFI Holiday Safety Series: Holiday Safety Starts Here!

Welcome to ESFI’s holiday safety website! This site has been developed as a seasonal feature to helps families and communities take steps to prevent the risk of electrical hazards before, during, and after the winter holiday season. Each year, nearly 130,000 fires will be reported in December alone - claiming over 400 lives and causing 1,600 injuries. Tragically, the number of children injured and killed by fires more than doubles during the holiday months.

To increase awareness of the electrical hazards that commonly occur during the winter holiday season, ESFI has created print, audiovisual, and multimedia educational materials that can be customized and are available to be downloaded from our website or provided upon request.

These holiday resources can help you to more easily identify electrical hazards in your home, and protect yourself and your loved ones from electrical dangers this holiday season.

ESFI reminds you enjoy this special time of year by staying safe!

Fact Sheets

Provide information about holiday electrical safety topics, including a description of the hazard, its risk factors, national statistics, commonly asked questions, and safety tips:

Safety Checklists

Outline useful guidelines for recognizing and eliminating commonly overlooked electrical dangers both in and around the home this holiday season:

2008 Holiday Safety Campaign News Releases

A written press release and a multimedia news release (MNR) that supplements the text with multiple videos that can be embedded:

B-Roll Video Footage

Contains links to the complete ESFI holiday safety advisory, script and streaming video. It also includes a link to a broadcast-quality file that can be used in television newscasts: