If you burn yourself, tell an adult immediately and hold the burned area under cool running water.

Don't put knives or other sharp objects into a sink full of water. Someone could reach in and get hurt.

Watch out for sharp knives. Let an adult cut or slice foods or help you do it.

Never put water on a cooking fire -- it could make the fire bigger. Ask an adult for help! Put out a fire with a fire extinguisher. If the fire is small, it can be put out with baking soda or smothered with a lid. Leave the house and call 911 if the fire has leaping flames.

dont know how many times I've seen this, water is ones first thought

Don't put cooked food on an unwashed plate or cutting board that held raw food. Always use a clean plate.

Never add water to a pan that has hot oil in it. It could make the oil splatter and burn someone.

Always turn pot handles in toward the back of the rangetop. This way no one can bump into them and knock the pot over.

Keep paper towels, dish towels and pot holders away from the rangetop so they don't catch on fire.

my nephew once put his hand directly on a red hot burner, he had those nasty spiral burns on his hand for weeks. I never felt so bad for a kid. His parents felt awful.

An article on knife handle materials:

Knives are an important part of daily life - be it at home, work or in many other places. For those who give special importance and preference to knives, they become an inseparable part of their lives and preferences. Knife making as an art started thousands of years ago and is still being practiced with vigor by those who tend to continue the art form and derive joy, pride and pleasure from it. Knife making was probably one of the first inventions from mankind after learning how to tend metal into shapes and sizes.

For knife aficionados or even for those who work with knife for the bulk of the day, knife handles become as important as the other important part of the knife - the blade. Knife handles should be carefully selected or made as they can affect the experience of using the knife. Also, the knife handle gives you a choice to personalize the knife in many ways - be it decorating it with designs, or etching or engraving your name or message, adorning it with stones etc. Knife handles thus provide a place to show case the personality of the user or the knife maker.

Knife handles can be made from many different materials ranging form simple material like kitchen linoleum to many kinds of hard woods like rosewood to exotic material like Caribou antlers or woolly mammoth ivory. Each material has its own characteristics and the best material is the one that matches the needs of the user and fits him or her.