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• Around your home
• Highways
• Airports

Around Your Home

• Protect yourself from carbon monoxide or "CO" poisoning. Especially note:

  • Put generators outside away from windows or carefully vent the exhaust outside because it contains dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide.

  • Never operate a gas-burning appliance in a poorly vented or closed room, or where you are sleeping. Never use "combustion appliances" like a gas range, oven, or dryer for heating. Learn more about combustion appliances.
    
    Protect Your Family and Yourself from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

• Avoid the impacts of severe winter weather before storms arrive. Read these winter preparedness safety tips from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  
  
• Shoveling snow can be more than a chore; it can be a health hazard if you don't take some basic precautions against back injury, hypothermia, or heart attack. Here are snow shovel safety tips from the American Heart Association.
  
  
• Need to remove ice from walks and driveways or keep it from building up in the first place? Find options that are less harmful than salt.

Highways

• Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping for Municipal Operations
• Manual for Deicing Chemicals: Application Practices
• Managing Highway Deicing to Prevent Contamination of Drinking Water (PDF, 128K, 7 pp)
• Storm Water Management Fact Sheet Minimizing Effects from Highway Deicing (PDF, 229K, 8 pp)

Airports

• Managing Aircraft and Airfield Deicing Operations to Prevent Contamination of Drinking Water (PDF, 121K, 7 pp)
• Storm Water Technology Fact Sheet: Airplane Deicing Fluid Recovery Systems (PDF, 121K, 6 pp)
• Preliminary Data Summary - Airport Deicing Study