Skip to content

D Safety | D1 Washing people | D2 Washing clothes and bedding | D3 Removing waste water safely | D4 Improving nutrition: the ability to store, prepare and cook food | D5 Reducing the negative impacts of over-crowding | D6 Reducing negative effects of animals, insects and vermin | D7 Reducing the health impacts of dust | D8 Controlling the temperature of the living environment

Part D: Managing houses for safety and health

A cyclical maintenance program is essential for sustaining the safety and health of houses and yard areas in a community.  This program is best staffed by local people who have knowledge about the parts of health hardware that they can maintain and the components that require licensed tradespeople to be brought into the community. The following information sets out:

Each diagram includes number labels for critical parts of the safety or health hardware, which are described in the text.