On Friday, 8 May 2015 20:54:37 UTC+1, Jacko wrote:
"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 08/05/15 14:37, GB wrote:
On 07/05/2015 21:40, Tim Watts wrote:

So, you can guarantee that no child will ever enter a particular house?
And that house will never be sold to someone with kids or grandkids?

Surely, what is needed is a breakaway version that works correctly.
That
can't be impossible to design.

You might have thought so.

I am annoyed because for a couple of edge cases, I have a product that
fundamentally does not work.

It's more than a couple of cutting edge cases, though. It's two
avoidable deaths a year on average. You should not have a non-working
product, but it's wrong to deny that there's an issue that the
non-working-ness is trying very badly to address.





But everyone's happy because "it's safe".

It's funny how we managed all these decades without.

We had far fewer of these sorts of blinds IIRC a few decades ago. But
more recently we've been 'managing' with two funerals a year.

I am not wholly convinced - I recall plenty of roller blinds when I was a
kid.

Whilst any death is sad, if you wanted to solve a problem, you'd start
with the roads as there are 1000s of deaths each year.

That one is much harder to do something about and has been
started with anyway, particularly with child seats in cars.

With blinds, I rather feel it would be more useful to put in a bit of red
printed paper and a self adhesive hook that reminds people that blind
chains can choke tiny kids and to either shorten the chain out of reach or
hang out of reach when not in use.

That approach has the problem that it is so easy to forget to do it.

It's very hard to make a breakaway device that will give way when perhaps
10lbs of kid is hanging off it and yet does not break when you need to
give it a stiff tug. I think it's a doomed exercise.

It shouldn't be hard to do one that is easy to put
back together if the stiff tug sees it come apart.

Plastic bags kill - and they have warnings which reminds people who don't
think without causing problems for those who do.

Because there is no practical alternative.

There is, bags of platic netting. No suffocation risk.


NT