According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, over 2.5 million children are injured or killed by accidents in the home every year. While there are many potential hazards in any home that could be dangerous to a child, there are also simple safety devices that you can easily install in your home to help protect kids from injury.
The CSPC lists a number of safety items that you can install yourself to childproof your home:
- Install safety latches & locks on cabinets and drawers in the bathrooms, and kitchens to prevent access to cleaning supplies, medicines, or injuries from sharp objects.
- Use safety gates to prevent kids from falling down stairs and keeping them out of dangerous areas.
- You should have smoke detectors installed on every level of your home and near bedrooms to alert you of a possible fire. Check each of them once a month to make sure they are working.
- Use corner and edge bumpers to make help protect kids in your home from falls against sharp furniture or counter corners.
- Cover unused outlets with outlet covers to prevent electric shocks and accidental electrocutions.
You want to make sure to choose sturdy, well-made products that will help protect your kids from injury, but you also want them to be easy to use. The CSPC also advises that nothing is entirely childproof, and if you have older children, be sure to re-secure safety devices that they may undo. Check out this CSPC guide for even more information on safety devices that can help protect the children in your home.
2 Comments on "Take Steps To Childproof Your Home"
R. M.
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I would have to say because it is true that in my neighborhood, summertime is always the nicest time and everything goes well. During the winter when it gets cold, arguments, fights, theft and crime happens due to outsiders attacking some elderly ladies and taking their cars. The last serious crime was this past February 6th during the snow season where a person was nearly murdered, car stolen and holes shot in to and set on fire at a park out in the country. Two weeks later, two suspects that were on the street but were from Philadelphia, Pa. were arrested but are now serving time in a prison in Baltimore, Md. but in Jessup or Maryland House Of Corrections as they used to call it. Ever since, the neighborhood has been good. I just want to give you a little history of my neighborhood before mentioning that the children here are safe. The parents here are very protective of their children. A neighborhood watch program has been employed for the safety of everybody. Close to a third of the residents watch your program and they say they learn a lot from your program too.
sim
i would do that for my child
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