Jeff Merrick, JD, LLM
Attorney at Law

Pediatric Law Firm

Helping injured children and their families.

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Pediatric Law Firm’s Top Ten Safety Tips

  1. PROPER SAFETY SEAT / BOOSTER SEAT. The top killer of children and a big cause for more severe injuries are children riding in cars without being properly secured.  Use booster seats for kids under 4’9” (It’s now the law.) and child safety seats for others. Make sure belts and seats fit properly.

  2. Remove pillows, comforters and quilts that are too soft.  Do not lay babies on their face in the crib. As many as 900 babies per years, whose deaths are attributed to SIDS, may have suffocated.

  3. Avoid strangulation by making sure the spaces between crib slats and bunk bed railings are smaller than your baby’s head.

  4. Place the crib where pictures cannot fall in, babies cannot reach electrical outlets, and babies cannot topple out of a window.

  5. Place child safety gates atop stairways or other places where you don’t want your baby to be.  Close doors to unused rooms.

  6. Keep pet food, medicine, bug killers, and weed killers out of reach.

  7. Cut off drawstrings from sweatshirts and jackets. They can cause strangulation on playground equipment.

  8. Consider window guards or locks to keep children from falling through screens. Click here for more details.

  9. When visiting other homes (Grandma’s, for example), check around for any safety hazards.

  10. Get on your hands and knees, crawl around your house, and find the other things you’ve missed.
 
 
© 2007 by Jeff Merrick, P.C. This website is not legal advice. Merely contacting us does not establish an attorney-client relationship.  We do not solicit clients other than those with Oregon cases.  We serve all Oregon cities including:  Portland, Gresham, Fairview, Troutdale, Hood River, The Dalles, Tigard, Tualatin, Eugene, Salem, Keizer, Woodburn, Wilsonville, Beaverton, Sherwood, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, McMinnville, Dallas, Newberg, Bend, Redmond, Corvallis, Springfield, Lake Oswego, West, Linn, Oregon City, Gladstone, Milwaukie, Canby, Albany, Lebanon, Ashland, Klamath Falls, Roseburg, Medford, Grants Pass, Sutherlin, Coos Bay, Central Point, Lincoln City, Newport, St. Helens, Scappoose, Astoria, Baker City, Pendleton, Hermiston, John Day, Canyon City, Burns, Ontario.  We serve all Oregon counties, including: Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Hood River, Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Klamath, Columbia, Clatsop, Yamhill, Lincoln, Coos, Columbia, Linn, Lane, Polk, Benton, Marion, Malheur, Harney, Baker and Umatilla.