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Showing posts with label Child Safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Child Safety. Show all posts

2013-01-07

Safety items for babies in the home

There are numerous safety devices to protect infants fromaccidents in the home

The chances of a baby suffering an injury in a domestic accident are high, but can be prevented in most cases. In addition to monitoring the behavior of small, to create a safe environment at home is advisable to make use of the various items and safety devices available today in the market. These facilities are effective inreducing the incidence of childhood accidents and increase peace of families. then provides a list of useful devices to protect babies in different parts of the house.

Safety items for the bathroom:

•Safety seats for the bath: when the baby is able to sit, around six months, it is recommended to use for bath time adaptable seats. These help you stay upright and prevent, in a careless, it can slide into the water.

•Mats and slip elements: are essential to prevent small slip and fall while bathing. These elements are fixed to the floor of the tub or shower with suction cups.

•Protectors faucets: are manufactured in rubber, silicone oras bouncy, and are used to coat the bathtub faucet and minimize the effects of a possible accidental blow during bathing.

•Testers Temperature: to make sure the water temperature is just right,  you must use special thermometers that indicate a submersible easily if the water is too hot or cold for the baby.

•Adapters toilet: when children begin to use the toilet should be placed a special holder, so that the diameter is smaller and the child can use it without falling.

The safety of children in the kitchen:

•Safety knobs kitchen: to prevent small handling keys furnace, gas stoves or electric, you can put special controls or guards that hinder its activation.

•Safety barrier for kitchens: standing in front of the fire to prevent children from accessing them and can pull the items that are on the surface.

•Protector and oven door blocker: located on the oven door to protect children from burns when the appliance is operating or hot and prevent its opening.

Security elements for furniture:

•Corner protectors and projections: in the market you can buy different corners, corner protectors tapes and flexible, made ​​of silicone, foam and other soft materials to protect small accidental bruises.

•For glass protection film: transparent sheet is placed on glass or mirrors to avoid that in case of breakage, chipping and fall to the ground.

•Tethers and anchors: to prevent baby furniture to drop somewhat unstable over, you can use different anchors and special grip tape these to the wall. There are also special tightening straps to secure the flat TV.

•Enrollacordones: these child safety devices are designed to keep small cords manipulate the curtains,  blinds and shutters and protect bottlenecks.

•Protector for electronic devices: prevent children from poking fingers or objects within electronic devices such as DVD, video or DTT.

•Plug protector: prevent minors into contact with the electrical current through the plugs, are easy to install and no need to remove them to use electronic devices.

•Barrier bed: to prevent small drop of the bed while sleeping, various devices can be used as a lateral barrier function and, in general,  can be folded or hide during the day.

•Locks for cabinets and drawers to prevent children from accessing dangerous products or substances arranged in household cabinets and drawers, various devices that block the opening with a security system.

Child safety gates, balconies and windows:

•Safety stops: to prevent children's fingers caught when closing the door, you can place a simple foam plug in singing or, in the case of sliding doors, a few blocks adhesives impossible to open small that adult uncontrolled.

•Network railings: prevents children push his head through the bars of the railing balconies or staircases.

•Insurance windows: to prevent children from opening the windows, we can find different types of insurance and ceilings that allow opening only to the extent that the selected adult.

2012-08-10

Safety seats for babies and children

Despite efforts made in the child safety on the road, The fact is that accidents remain the leading cause of infant mortality (Children aged 0 -14 years). That is why the child road safety is a priority area. And is that 75% of traffic accidents could be avoided, Conveniently using security systems in the cardesigned especially for children. Every year in Europe are approximately 1.1 million traffic accidents about 1.6 million injuries (of which there were 30,000 deaths).

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However, when analyzing the evolution of child road safety in the last twenty years (1990-2009) in Spain, the conclusion is encouraging, because for the first time the number of children (0-14 years) died as a result of traffic accidents has been reduced, in particular, 80% less.

The number has dropped from 307 deaths in 1990 to 60 deaths in 2009. One factor that has influenced this decrease in traffic accidents, Has been without doubt the use of child safety seats. Today, nearly 90 percent of children use safety seats, however, the concern is that nearly 40 percent of children killed in traffic accidents were not using any security measure on the cars. Seats or safety seats for infants and children are the most effective measure for fight against traffic accidents.

Therefore, to protect the lives of babies and children requires the use of safety seats in the car. The car seat is the best instrument to travel with the child on the road Because it ensures the containment, protection and better retention in case of accident. This is because each seat, despite having different sizes depending on model, has a housing structure and proportional to the size of the child, belts built for smaller, specific protections in case of side impacts.

The safety belt the car itself is not an instrument suitable and safe for a child, as it is designed specifically for adult safety. Most of the car seats offers the possibility to adjust the fit and containment parts, according to stages of development in the child's growth. Besides reducing the corresponding cushions, ideal for younger children, and retire when they grow there, as the types and models available in trade, various solutions that can regulate the height, width and inclination (the back , the headrest and / or armrest). These regulations are intended to ensure the child is always the best protection at all times of development.
How to choose the chair for baby

The choice of car seat should be assessed in terms of child's weight. European legislation divides the weight-weight-groups, ie weight ranges that are classified in child car seats. Each seat is designed, and manufactured homologous with this benchmark.
  1. Group 0 from birth to 10 kg Until to 9 months approximately.
  2. Group 0+ from birth to 13 kg Until to 12 months approximately.
  3. Group 1 9 to 18 kg from the 8 months -Until To 4 years approximately.
  4. Group 2 15 to 25 kg from the 3 months -Until to 6 years approximately.
  5. Group 3 22 to 36 kg from the 5 months-Until 12 years approximately.

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