: Your furniture should not be positioned so anybody could easily trip
: on the exposed open cover. If they could trip on the cover, they
: could also hook their foot on the wire coming out from it.

You can buy covers for wires that prevent tripping, and protect the
wires. Some of these might also cover the outlet. For example (the
first one I found in google) http://www.cableorganizer.com/cord-covers/

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