This week the National Safety Council’s Window Safety Task Force is celebrating National Window Safety Week, with a focus on raising awareness for accidental falls. Here are some safety tips shared by the Window Safety Task Force to keep you and your family safe:
- Teach children to play area away from windows
- Teach caregivers and children that screens keep bugs out, but they do not keep children in
- For any windows that are 6 feet or higher from the ground, install window stops or guards that meet ASTM standards – limiting windows to opening less than 4 inches
- Keep windows closed and locked when not in use
- Keep furniture or anything a child can climb away from windows
- Always supervise children and ask about window safety when your child visits other homes
- For a double-hung window on an upper floor, install a window guard or stop that keeps children from pushing the bottom window open
- Lessen the potential impact of injury from a fall through strategic landscaping – use of wood chips, grass or shrubs beneath windows
For more information about Window Safety Week, visit the National Safety Council’s website: https://www.nsc.org/home-safety/safety-topics/child-safety/window-safety
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