Accident prevention when using "Baby Gate" Tokyo Metropolitan Council proposed proposal November 7, 19:59
The Tokyo Metropolitan Council has been considering measures to prevent accidents due to a number of accidents involving injuries to children due to errors in the use of the safety fence `` Baby Gate '' that prevents infants from entering dangerous places. Suggested a proposal.
“Baby Gate” is a safety fence that prevents infants from entering dangerous places in the house such as stairs, but there are a number of accidents in which children are injured accidentally.
When the Tokyo Metropolitan Government investigated information on medical institutions collected by the Tokyo Fire Department's emergency transport cases and the National Life Center, the child who had fallen off the fence during the last five years until last year fell and was injured. There were 123 accidents, and 7 of these were injuries that required hospitalization.
Under these circumstances, a meeting was held on the 7th by the manufacturer and specialists established by the Metropolitan Government to advance measures.
In this, a movie that verifies the safety of the baby gate that Tokyo made by an external organization was played, and when a one-year-old child applied force by pushing or pulling the fence, depending on the product, the fence slipped It was shown that there is a possibility of falling off and falling.
In addition, the results of a questionnaire survey conducted by users of the city were introduced, and the most common case of injuries or injuries was that the child had to close the fence due to forgetting to close the fence. The cases that passed through accounted for 37.1% of the total, followed by 15.8% of cases where the fence was removed and the child fell, and 11.8% of cases where the body was sandwiched between the fences.
In response to this, the council will clearly indicate on the product a proposal to prevent accidents by considering a fixing method that will not fall over even when shocked, and prompting the user to re-install the fence in the original correct location. The idea of doing was shown.
The Council has decided to put together a proposal to the prospect of February next year.
Kenhiko Koshiyama, professor of Chiba Institute of Technology, who is the chairman of the council, said, “Baby gates are inherently a tool for ensuring safety, so I want them to be used correctly and protect children's safety so that no accidents occur.” .