Safety Concerns

It is important to Aloha Blinds & Designs that your whole family enjoys window coverings with peace of mind.

To help make your home a nurturing environment where your children can grow and explore accident-free, here are a few safety tips for window coverings:

1. Beware of long dangling cords: Cords can easily become wrapped around a child's neck and cause strangulation. Our cordless honeycomb shades and wood blinds are an excellent solution to this challenge because they eliminate visible lift cords. What’s more, they offer energy saving benefits because of their extraordinary insulating properties. Another alternative that works well is to make sure that you install and use cord cleats to keep cords well out of the reach of your child.

2. Secure or eliminate cord loops: If you have window coverings in your home with looped cord controls, the risk of strangulation is not hard to imagine. To help eliminate this risk, we have built-in safety features across all our product lines that have looped cords—breakaway tassels, cord tensioners and cord cleats. If your blinds or shades feature cord tensioners, be sure they are secured to the wall or window frame. Window coverings purchased before 1995 do not have these built-in safety features. To childproof older blinds that you may own, we recommend that you simply cut the loop into two separate cords and use cord cleats or tie backs. You can get free window blind cord safety tassels by calling the Window Covering Safety Council (WCSC) at 1-800-506-4636.

3. Remove climbing hazards: Children are not only natural explorers, they love to climb. Furniture may provide easy access to windows, cords and other potentially dangerous situations. This is why it is so important not put a chair or other object near a window with dangling cords. Our solution is to make sure that your furniture not be placed near any windows and of course to secure the cords with cord cleats.

4. Remove harmful lead products from your home: Lead is hazardous to your health and prior to the 1970’s; lead was commonly used to paint the interior of many homes and was used in the manufacture of window coverings throughout the United States. Kathy Ireland Home by Alta does not use lead in any of the products we produce. If you live in an older home, you should have the paint on the windowsills (as well as elsewhere in the house) checked for lead. You can call the National Lead Information Center (800-424-LEAD) for a list of certified inspectors and risk assessors in your area.

Again, as natural explorers, children find everyday objects new and exciting. As such, most children are oblivious to the peril that beckons them. To a new parent, some hazards in your home may be obvious, while others are not. To anticipate and eliminate any threat that may be lurking in the wings, we recommend that you look at the world from your child’s perspective--you must think like a child and see what a child sees. If necessary, get down on your hands and knees, and take a crawl around your home to see what is within your toddler's reach or what danger might seem especially enticing to your child. By taking the time to peruse your child’s environment, using good sound judgment and following the advice we have provided you, together, taking these precautions will reward your family with a safer, child-friendly home and greater peace of mind.

If you are moving into a new home or if it is time to redecorate, it is best if you furnish your home with window treatments that already have these safety features built-in. For more information on any of our window covering solutions, please contact a Aloha Blinds retailer near you.

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