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YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH CARE: MAKING YOUR HOME SAFE
Making your house safe has two main advantages. Firstly, it decreases the chances of injury to your child and secondly, it lessens the chances of breakages around the house and subsequent anger and frustration on the part of the parents.
When your child is aged about 6 months, just before the age when he becomes mobile, it is a good idea to work your way through the house consciously and systematically and make sure that it is safe for a young child. The checklist below may be useful. You can check off items with a pen as you do them. Do not wait until there has been an accident or breakage — do it now.
• Electrical outlets: put plugs on power points, and curly cords on electrical appliances; install safety switches.
• Cabinets: check kitchen and bathroom cupboards to make sure that poisons and dangerous materials are out of reach, especially those that are sharp, heavy or breakable. Consider locks for the doors of some cabinets, or the purchase of a medicine chest which can be locked.
• Doors: consider door barriers and latches for doors that restrict the child’s access to the outside or to rooms where he can get into trouble.
• Install fire guards, and check heaters and stoves to prevent burns and scalds.
• Place cigarettes, matches, lighters and ashtrays out of reach.
• Check furniture for sharp angles and corners.
• Consider using table mats instead of tablecloths.
• Re-position things that your child can climb on.
• Put away all fragile, breakable and precious objects.
• Safety barriers: put safety barriers on stairs (at the top and bottom).
• Window latches: consider window latches to prevent your child from fully opening them and falling or climbing out.
• Fire extinguishers: consider purchasing a fire extinguisher and have it handy in the kitchen.
• Smoke detector: install approved smoke detectors at strategic positions throughout the house.
• Swimming pool: make sure that the pool has an approved child-resistant fence all around it.
• Gates: make sure all gates around the house have child-resistant latches and/or locks.
• Poisons: make another trip around the house to make sure that all poisons, detergents, dishwashing powders and liquids, medicines, tablets, are safely out of reach. Check the bathroom, kitchen, laundry, garage and bedrooms especially carefully.
• Keep all plastic bags out of reach.
• Take the doors off old fridges in the garage
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