Child Safety Devices for Windows and Roller Blinds
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Child Safety Devices for Windows and Roller Blinds
The need to have child safety devices installed in households with children is obvious as toddlers often get themselves in potentially dangerous situations and could easily hut themselves while attempting to explore their surroundings. Even when left unsupervised for a little while they can end up getting hurt. Due to the ever increasing number of house accidents caused by windows and blinds, the industry has reacted and has come up with a variety of solutions to put an end to this phenomenon.
The threat open windows pose is obvious as toddlers are tempted to climb them and accidentally fall out of them when left unsupervised. While there are various obvious precaution measures parents should always take when leaving an open window in a room with a child, the industry also offers special child safety devices to help make any house safer.
The various ways you can prevent children from falling out open windows include not leaving chairs or other pieces of furniture in front of windows as they can easily climb upon them, never place cribs or playpens near windows and always make sure children cannot directly access windows when left alone in a room.
Further precautions include special safety mechanisms such as window guards, which act as a gate as they are composed of vertical or horizontal bars positioned at approximately 10 cm apart and prevent the toddler from reaching the window, or window stops which do not allow the window to open for more than 10 cm.
In the case of roller blinds, the danger of children getting caught in the long looped control cords and strangling themselves accidentally is higher in the case of roller blinds produced in the period of time between 1991 and 2001. A popular choice for households due to their appealing design, they have proved to be very dangerous for children as the cords are too long.
Since an increasing number of accidental strangulations in the case of children has been reported, safety regulations have been drawn up and the blinds manufacturers have tried to offer consumers solutions to make their homes safer.
Child safety kits are now available for purchase individually and can be mounted onto existing roller blinds. Whether you opt for cord cleats, release mechanisms or other devices meant to reduce the length of the cord, make the loop inaccessible for children or release the cord altogether, you have a wide variety of choices to choose from.
Without altering the appearance or the functionality of roller blinds, manufacturers now offer customers window treatments with fully integrated safety mechanisms in an effort to considerably reduce the risks of children being physically hurt after getting entangled in the cords of these furnishings.
A professional writer for Blindsuk.net, Leo Smatch offers his expertise on venetian, vertical, <a href="http://www.blindsuk.net/roller-blinds.html">roller blinds</a> concerning their fabrication, operation system and other features and their relation to child safety issues.
Posted on November 12, 2008 09:11 | Home Decorating
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