Choose cordless blinds or shades check window coverings for exposed cords that could pose a strangulation hazard to infants and young children.
Blinds child safety device.
Consumer product safety commission calls corded window coverings one of the top five hidden hazards in american homes with infants and children accidentally becoming entangled in window blind cords.
Consumers should immediately repair these types of blinds.
Temporary tuck cords up high.
A safety standard introduced in 2014 means that new blinds must be safe by design or be supplied with appropriate child safety devices installed.
The bottom loop of the chain or cord must be 150cms from the floor and secured with an evans textiles 781180 safety device without the safety device the product is not compliant and should not be fitted.
To prevent blind cord accidents the safest thing you can do is to fit a blind that is safe by design which means that it does not have looped cords and this is especially important in a child s bedroom.
There are a number of ways to improve the safety of the blinds in your home or in any home where your children might go grandparents holiday houses etc.
Keeping kids safe can be a challenge when danger may not be obvious.
The important point of calculation now becomes the installation height of the blind or track this determines how long the chain or cord can be.
Put blind cord safety at the top of your child proofing checklist.
Consumers should know that wcsc s retrofit kits do not address the dangling pull cord hazard associated with many common window blinds.
Replace corded window coverings with safer cordless products.
Window blinds that have an inner cord for raising the slats of the blinds can be pulled by a child and form a potentially deadly loop.
Window blind safety ideas.