CPSC Announces October as Window Covering Safety Month -
Consumers Urged to Repair or Replace Old Window Coverings
Press Release # 03-200
Transcript
TEXT: Footage: #1
Bedroom setting: Child standing on chair next to window covering playing with blinds. Parent returns with repair kit including scissors, tassels and demonstrates fix of outer cords.
TEXT: Many child deaths are attributed to inner cords on mini blinds. You can prevent inner cord stranulation by installing cord stops on the pull cords. Instruction and free cord stops are available by calling the toll-free hotline.
TEXT: Footage: #2
Baby playing in crib or playpen near window blind cords, child playing with blinds. Parent removes child and playpen and returns to repair blinds.
TEXT: Footage: #3
Young boys in bunk bed playing with cords.
TEXT: Loose cords in vertical blinds and other continuous looped curtains and pleated shades present a strangulation risk and cannot be cut. Instead, install a free tension device at the end of the cord loop. Pull the cord loop tight and secure it to the floor or wall. No children have died in taut cords. You can obtain a tension device by calling the toll-free hotline.
TEXT: Footage: #4
Drapery cord with tension device
TEXT: Window covering manufacturers, inporters and retailers are working together with CPSC to educate consumers about hte window covering strangulation hazard by providing point-of-sale information to retail customers, placing information in advertising circulars, promoting the availability of free repair kits.
TEXT: Footage: #5
Home improvement store window blind aisle. Signage of "Free Repair Kits." Store employee cutting blinds.
TEXT: The CPSC recommends that parents and caregivers consider alternative window coverings and cordless blinds, which have been recently introduced by manufacturers.
TEXT: Footage #6
Shots of two cordless blinds
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