Reports of infant and small children deaths caused by blind or curtain cords strangulation are increasing. Ensuring your child's safety and eliminating the potential risk that these blinds cords and chains have on your young ones should be a foremost priority. Learn more on how you can protect your children from these risks. View slides for more info or visit http://www.blindsonline.com.au.

1. Child Safety Information

2. Curtains and Blinds may not be the first thing
that comes to mind with home safety, but
recent media reports in Australia have made us
aware, they could well be...

3. Low hanging blinds and curtain cords pose a
serious risk of strangling infants and small
children. They can become entangled in these
cords while playing.

4. Even with raised window coverings, small children
can climb onto furniture, beds, cots or window sills
to access the cords. A child can put their head in
the looped cords, which can be tangled around
their neck and quickly cause choking, suffocation
or strangulation.

5. Even infants sleeping in a
cot or bed where cords are
hanging are also at risk.

6. In a report by the Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission, at least 11 children
have died in Australia between 2001 and 2008
after being caught in blind cords. Nine of
these were children under three years of age.

7. In the US, a child aged between seven months and
10 years dies each month after being strangled on
curtain or blind cords.

8. Each year many more have come close
to strangulation but were luckily saved
just in time.

9. In 2010, the Australian government initiated a mandatory
safety standards for blinds. Manufacturers are required to
include a warning label about cords on the packaging and
attached to the cord itself.

10. Existing blinds made prior to new safety
laws will need to be updated or replaced.

11. We can't stop “kids from being
kids” but we can make sure
that we eliminate any risk that
cords from curtains and blinds
potentially have to them.

12. Parents and caregivers should
pay close attention to window
and cord safety, and children
and pets accidentally strangling
in the looped cords.

13. This also goes for your beloved pets as they
can just as easily be tangled up in the cords,
when playing near the windows.
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14. Here are some steps to protect your
children from blinds and curtain cords.

15. Because cord safety features are now mandatory on
blinds, we believe you may feel more confident if
you replace your old-style blinds and curtains and
update to the new child-safe products, giving you
peace of mind.

16. Ensure that blinds and curtain cords or chains
in your home are out of reach of children,
particularly children under six years of age.

17. Check your blind and curtain cords
Do this anywhere you are staying,
including on holiday.
Immediately tie cords up out of reach
and move away any furniture children
might climb on to reach them.

18. Secure loose cords out of reach.
Buy cleats or tensioning devices from a
hardware store or from
Blindsonline.com.au.
Use at least two screws to fix each
cleat or tensioning device in a place
that is out of reach of children.
Never secure these devices with
materials that fail when a load is
placed on them, such as double
sided tape or glue.

19. Looped Chain or Cord Control
Lets you easily operate the blind by
rotating the chain or cord to raise &
lower the blind. Adds child proof
safety and gives an uncluttered look

20. Cordless lift system replaces the
need for dangerous lift cords, with
the easy operation of lightly pulling
the handle to operate.

21. Safety wand control option
eliminates dangling cords, making
your blinds less hazardous.

22. Choose option of motorisation will
make your blinds a safer window
treatment.

23. It is estimated that thousands of consumers
have not replaced their existing old blinds or
corded window furnishings with products now
available, please don’t let your household be
one of them.

24. For your own peace of mind and your family’s
safety, eliminate the potential risk that cords
from curtains and blinds may have.

26. A friendly reminder from
Blindsonline.com.au
Your family’s safety is our highest priority.

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