Check Your Batteries Day – March 9, 2025

History of Check Your Batteries Day

No one knows for certain where Check Your Batteries Day came from, or who first observed it. Check Your Batteries Day, which takes place during Daylight Savings Time, aims to be a useful time to raise awareness about the importance of testing and maintaining functional batteries in household appliances such as smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, radon detectors, and other electronic devices, among other things. These gadgets will alert us to a potentially life-threatening scenario, providing us with the critical time we need to get ourselves and our families to a safe location in time. To ensure that these devices are operating properly, it is critical to check them frequently.

Detectors like these have the potential to save lives if used appropriately. Before the invention of these electronic devices, detecting smoke and carbon monoxide was virtually impossible, and it was often too late once the problem had occurred. It was around the late 1890s that smoke detectors were first introduced into the market. Since George Andrew Darby and Walter Jaeger invented and patented the smoke detector in the early 1900s, and Duane Pearsall later improved on this design in the 1960s, smoke detectors have responded more quickly to fires than heat detectors. In recent years, smoke, carbon monoxide, and radon detectors have saved a substantial number of lives, and changing the batteries in these devices can help to save even more lives.

It is recommended that you change the batteries in your smoke alarm once a month and replace it every ten years to help safeguard your home and family while saving money. Smoke alarms have reduced the average escape time. As a result, update your batteries and replace your smoke alarm batteries this month.