Knowing about safety helps Scouts to make the right choices and to take the best actions to avoid accidents by making informed choices in their everyday activities and to respond appropriately during an emergency situation. Any place, even the home, can have incidents. Scouts learn how to keep their home and family safe.  

REQUIREMENTS NOT COVERED: Requirements 2d-f

Requirement 2d-f 

• (d) Using a safety checklist approved by your counselor, make an inspection of your home. Inspect your home or a similar building for hazards with an adult.

• (e) Develop a fire-escape plan for your home or for a similar building. Include in your drawings exit routes from each room and a meeting place outside. Conduct a fire-escape drill. Review your plan and your drill with your counselor.

• (f) Develop a family emergency action plan for evacuation because of weather or other natural disasters that occur in your area. Using a checklist in the Safety merit badge pamphlet or one approved by your counselor, assemble or inspect an emergency supplies kit. Explain to your counselor how a family would use the plan and the kit supplies in an emergency.