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Making Your Home Safe for Your Children: A Guide

 Making your home safe for your children should be one of your top priorities when it is time to renovate your home. There are as many different hazards and risks at home as there are in the wider world, and it is vital that you can safeguard your family against these. So then, here is a short guide to some of the best ways that you can keep your children safe from fires, burglars, and even trip hazards. 

Install Alarms 

When you plan to make your home safe for your children, one of the best tools that can help you do this is an alarm. For example, burglars can present a risk to both your possessions and your children, with many parents worrying about the safety of their children at night. So then, you should consider installing security alarms around your house that can alert you to intruders and break-ins. You should also consider installing smoke alarms around your home, as these can make you aware of any fires that have started within your home, whether they have been caused by a stray match or a faulty plug socket. At powerpointelectrics.co.uk, they can offer you all of the alarms that you need to keep your family safe, as well as electrical supplies that you can use to replace faulty plug sockets or poor electrics within your home. 

Be Aware of Toxic Substances

However, you also need to be aware of the potentially toxic substances that are in your home, such as cleaning fluids. Although you may previously have stored them within the room that you use them in, you should move them to a secure place outside of the reach of little fingers. For instance, many parents put child locks on the cupboards that contain toxic substances or choose a storage place for them that is up high or away from where your children play. 

Look for Trip Hazards

Your house can be home to a variety of trip hazards if you are not careful, and this can be dangerous to both your children and any elderly people, or people with poor mobility, who are living with you. Then, you should look at your home from a child’s perspective. You should take up any loose wires hanging around your house and fix down any loose carpeting or rugs that could present a hazard to your child. You should also consider placing protective guards on the corners of furniture that your child may potentially run into and which could injure them. 

Be Careful Around Windows

You also need to be aware of the potential dangers that windows could present to your child. For instance, your child could fall out of an unguarded window, or they could get tangled in a blind cord. Then, you should consider putting window guards up and using child-friendly cords that come apart when they are pulled. It is especially important to do this in a child’s bedroom, where they may be left unsupervised. 


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