Entry and exterior steps
Step height and evenness, an outside light that works, somewhere to set a bag while a key is found, and whether the door opens without letting go of a rail.
Home safety assessments
Firefighters walk into hundreds of homes a year and see exactly how accidents happen — which is why a Salus home safety assessment finds what family members walk past every day. We evaluate the home room by room with a trained eye, then hand your family a prioritized list of practical, affordable fixes.
In one paragraph
What is a home safety assessment?
A home safety assessment is a walkthrough of a residence, room by room, to identify features of the building itself that could cause an injury — lighting, surfaces, handrails, storage heights, cords, clutter and access. It produces a written, ranked list of modifications, most of them small and inexpensive.
This one is about the house, not the person. It asks a different question from a fall risk assessment: not how steady someone is, but whether the building is arranged so a moment of unsteadiness stays a moment. Families often book both.
Scope
What the walkthrough covers
- The entry, exterior steps and how mail and groceries get inside
- Lighting levels and switch placement throughout
- Wet rooms — bathroom surfaces, grab points and anchoring
- Bedroom layout and the night route
- Kitchen storage heights and reaching habits
- Stairs, handrails, cords and accumulated clutter
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The walkthrough
Room by room, what we look at
We start outside the front door and finish wherever the clutter has settled.
Hallways and lighting
Dead bulbs, glare on polished floors, and switches that sit at the wrong end of a corridor, so the walk to the light happens in the dark.
The bathroom
Surface grip wet versus dry, mat backing, toilet seat height, and whether the towel rail is doing a grab bar's job. We note where an anchored bar belongs.
Bedroom and night route
Whether a lamp can be reached before feet touch the floor, what is stored under the bed, and whether the phone lives somewhere findable at 2am.
The kitchen
Everyday items stored above shoulder height, the chair being used as a step stool, pan handles turned outward, and the floor space between stove and sink.
Stairs
Whether the handrail runs the whole flight and past the last tread, tread depth, worn carpet nosings, and light at both the top and the bottom.
Cords and clutter
Extension leads crossing walkways, chargers snaking past a chair, laundry baskets in doorways, and the pile at the bottom of the stairs.
Triage
How we prioritise what we find
A list of thirty problems helps nobody. We sort findings into three bands, and free fixes always come before purchases — a good number of the changes we suggest cost nothing at all beyond moving something.
- Do it today, at no costMove the basket out of the doorway, reroute a cord, relocate the everyday plates to a lower shelf, replace a bulb.
- Worth a small purchase soonPlug-in night lights along the night route, non-slip mats, a raised toilet seat, adhesive stair-edge marking.
- Plan properly, get helpAnchored grab bars, a second handrail, a threshold ramp — anything that must be fixed into structure by someone qualified.
What you keep
The written list you get
One page per band, each item naming the room, what we saw and what we suggest. It is written so an adult child who has never been in the house knows what to order, and so a handyman can work from it without a second visit. On later visits we check the list against the house and mark off what is done.
Households often pair this with a fire safety assessment so the whole building is covered in one afternoon, or with an in-home wellness assessment for a broader view. We walk homes across Hialeah and the rest of our service area.
One clarification
A scheduled visit, not a call button
Salus books these walkthroughs in advance as preventive care, and nothing here replaces emergency services. If an injury or a possible emergency occurs at any point, the number to dial is 911, not ours.
Before you book
Home safety questions
We identify, prioritize, and explain what's needed. For installations, we point you to the right kind of help — and on follow-up visits we verify what's been done and what still needs attention.
Please don't tidy. A house cleaned for a visitor hides the thing we came to find. We would rather see the hallway as it looks on a normal Tuesday.
Yes. Most of what we recommend needs no drilling and no landlord approval. Where something structural is involved, the written list gives you the wording to take to the landlord.
Further reading on home hazards
Start with a walkthrough
Start with a $99 introductory visit — no membership required, no pressure, honest answers.