See, understand, and prevent dangers
Every year, more than 500,000 children in Germany have accidents at home. The tragedy is that around 60% of these accidents can be prevented.
One reason for many accidents is that parents aren't aware of the dangers or underestimate them. Usually, the risk of accidents on the road is considered much higher than in the home. However, statistics show that 70% of accidents happen at home.
Dangers lurk in every room of a house or flat that we adults aren't even aware of.
Here we give you safety tips for each room, point out the most common danger spots and show you appropriate solutions.
Our safety tips:
- Do not keep hot drinks within reach of your child! The contents of a cup can scald up to 30% of the body surface of an infant or young child.
- Always keep alcohol and cigarettes out of your child's reach.
- Make sure that tablecloths don't hang down into your child's reach. Your child could try to pull himself up on them. This would cause any objects on the tablecloth to fall on your child.
- Lighters, matches, lit candles, stoves, and fireplaces present great dangers. Do not leave small children unattended in the room.
Our safety tips:
- Handles and grips of cooking utensils should always be turned backwards. When possible, move pans and pots to the back of the hobs after cooking.
- Avoid dangling cables of electrical appliances such as kettles, coffee makers, etc. Your child could pull on them and seriously injure himself.
- Ensure that breakable objects, containers, cleaning agents etc. are kept out of reach of children.
- Be careful when handling electrical appliances near water! They could fall into the water and cause a dangerous electric shock.
Our safety tips:
- Install smoke detectors. Silent danger surprises up to 70% of all fire victims at night while they're sleeping.
- Secure your sockets, electrical accidents can lead to life-threatening injuries.
- Avoid tripping hazards such as carpet ends sticking up, objects lying around and cables.
- Use window and balcony door guards to protect your child from life-threatening falls.
Our safety tips:
- Infants and toddlers must never be left alone near water!
- Infants under 3 years old cannot lift their heads out of the water so they can drown even in shallow water.
- Also, note that older siblings or children are not adequate supervisors.
- Especially in the bathroom, electrical appliances can pose a high risk. As soon as you stop using an appliance, always unplug it and stow it away out of your child's reach.
Our safety tips:
- In dim light, the steps of a staircase can quickly become a dangerous tripping hazard. This danger can be averted simply and reliably with the proper lighting.
- Caution: Danger of slipping! Slippery and slippery surfaces such as tiles, stairs, ladders and ramps pose increased risks of slipping and falling, which can result in dangerous injuries.
- Avoid raised carpet ends and objects lying around such as toys or shoes.