Safety
Pull and tilt cords are dangerous to young children and pets, as they may cause strangulation. The risk is reduced by keeping the pull cord high-knotted, secure and out of reach of small children and pets. Cord repair kits include cord stops, tassels and tie down devices. Blinds with wand tilt are safer than blinds with traditional cord tilt. There are also cordless blinds. The dangling group of pull cords is replaced by a spring motor system. A push or pull on the bottom bar raises or lowers the mini blind rather than using pull cords.
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Famous quotes containing the word safety:
“Can we not teach children, even as we protect them from victimization, that for them to become victimizers constitutes the greatest peril of all, specifically the sacrifice—physical or psychological—of the well-being of other people? And that destroying the life or safety of other people, through teasing, bullying, hitting or otherwise, “putting them down,” is as destructive to themselves as to their victims.”
—Lewis P. Lipsitt (20th century)
“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perhaps having built a barricade when you’re sixteen provides you with a sort of safety rail. If you’ve once taken part in building one, even inadvertently, doesn’t its usually latent image reappear like a warning signal whenever you’re tempted to join the police, or support any manifestation of Law and Order?”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)