Install or use safety devices.
Blinds child safety device.
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.
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.
A safety standard introduced in 2014 means that new blinds must be safe by design or be supplied with appropriate child safety devices installed.
Replace corded window coverings with safer cordless products.
Window blind safety ideas.
Keeping kids safe can be a challenge when danger may not be obvious.
Consumers should immediately repair these types of blinds.
Making your blinds safer.
Choose cordless blinds or shades check window coverings for exposed cords that could pose a strangulation hazard to infants and young children.
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.
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.
Consumers should know that wcsc s retrofit kits do not address the dangling pull cord hazard associated with many common window blinds.
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.
Temporary tuck cords up high.