This document provides tips for making a home safer for children who are blind. It recommends using cord cleats and P clips to tidy up dangling cords from blinds and shades. It also suggests using breakaway connectors on blinds and shades and opting for wand-operated or gear-operated blinds to avoid exposed cords that could pose a risk. Pleated tensioned blinds and Venetian blinds with breakaway tassels are also safer options.

1. Blind safety Some of the ways your home can be made safer for your children

2. Cord cleat Cord & chain tidy P clip

3. Breakaway connector

4. Wand operated vertical blind

6. Gear operated roller blind (also used for awnings)

7. Wand operated panel blinds

8. Pleated tensioned blinds can still have some exposed cords but are safer than free hanging pleated blinds

9. Breakaway tassels for Venetian type blinds Uniwand for mini blinds has cord inside the wand