I thought about it all day and decided it was time for my 2 cents.

The flyer should be a great tool. The problem with Mike's approach is that he believes education can make a difference. I want to believe education will make a difference. It won't! We are living in an age of "notification." Automobiles come equipped with low-tire pressure sensors to warn the driver a tire is under inflated because no one checks their tires anymore. Certainly, people are not going to take time to walk around their house looking for problems...many of which would not be recognized by the average homeowner anyway!

The only sure way of reducing the numbers of events is by having a means for notifying the homeowner that dangerous conditions exist so they will take action.

I think the flyer is a great idea. Here are a few suggestions:

1st paragraph is dangerous when it says hire a licensed and qualified electrician - a homeowner has no way to know if a licensed electrician is qualified. If an electrician holds a license, he must be qualified. A better suggestion is to determine if the electrician does hold a license. Perhaps wording such as - before hiring an electrician, call your local certification board to verify they are properly licensed ( and get a permit if required).

para titled Appliances and Equipment deals with chords and surge protectors. Change the title or move the content elswhere.

I think an included topic should be called devices: discuss therein broken switches or terminals, damaged or arced receptacles, pull chord switches that don't work, smoke detectors, etc

Hot terminals - how is a homeowner supposed to know if terminals are thermally hot (unless they stick their finger on it. Delete - dangerous comment.

Receptacles para 1 - I wasn't aware that GFCI receptacles were needed if they were not required under the code the house was wired under.

Perhaps include a topic like safety assessment or system upgrade, and discuss a few things there - adding new circuits, changing/upgrading devices to tamper proof or to GFCI or AFI (or include breaker upgrade), examining exterior wiring (I recently found my sunlight resistant service entrance cable sheathing had been damaged by the sun over the 25 years it was in place) etc.

Or suggest having a licensed electrician conduct the survey.

How about suggesting taking down Christmas or Holiday lights after the holiday has passed ( I forget the NEC code section)

Or how about including a general recommendation for lay people not to do their own electrical work unless they really know what they are doing.

I could make more suggestions, but do consider making the flyer more focused on what a lay person might do to enhance safety. That's a good picture of the damaged extension chord. How about some of a receptacle that has sustained arc damage, or broken devices etc.