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What do people have to say about Door Safety? I found this comment on greatdad and I thought that it might interest other parents!

'''Dads, kids and lost fingers - warning to dads of toddlers 16 May 2006 by paulbanas'''

Dads, kids and lost fingers - warning to dads of toddlers Dads and their small kids share another thing in common -- a greater risk of losing fingers.

A study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reports that children lose fingers to opening and closing doors. Men lose theirs to power tools.

The study found that about 28,000 people go to the emergency rooms in the US and that the greatest concentration is kids under 5 and men between 55 and 64. Among kids, a full 73% fell prey to closing doors, while 47% of the older male's amputations were due to power tools.

The recommendation is to install pinch guards on doors and to watch carefully when kids are playing near them. Another solution is the Fingershield, which covers the area I consider more dangerous, behind the door near the hinges where little hands can get caught without being seen. As a dad who recently came milliseconds from taking off several of his son's fingers in a closing door, I strongly advise taking this one seriously. This accident can happen very quickly when little kids are playing behind a door while an adult is preoccupied with saying goodbye to friends or signing for a delivery.

The comment above was posted at greatdad.com

In my opinion I thought that Door Safety is an important issue for parents and I am confident that other parents feel the same. Without having information about the danger and solutions available this issue will always be a statistic.

Ron McLeod, former Principal Health & Safety Officer for Manchester City Council LEA said the following;

"Fingershield is the best device of its kind that I have seen, I strongly recommend that all schools take advantage of the unique free door risk assessment survey that Fingershield now offer." This comment was found at fingershield.co.uk

Tiny World Day Nursery Gives Parents Peace of Mind

Brightening up their little world…

Not content with simply installing the white devices, Karen decided to inject a bit of fun into finger protection, as she explained: “Tony wanted the white devices all over, which is what we got for the other two nurseries, but for Mansfield, we wanted to put a bit of fun into it, so we chose the red, yellow and blue devices.

“We wanted the colour devices, firstly, to emphasise that we’ve got them and, secondly, so they would fit in with the nursery’s décor. We have the old-style heavy wooden doors, so the Fingershields brighten the nursery up a little and add a bit of colour.”

As you can imagine, there is nothing worse than having the constant worry of toddlers getting their fingers trapped in a door. But as the Tiny World Day Nursery discovered, this kind of injury – and indeed this kind of worry – can now safely be a thing of the past.

Care Homes Crack Down on Safety Risks

Raising the Alarm for Door Safety Interestingly, before the care home installed the Fingershield devices, measures that were actually in place for the purposes of fire safety highlighted the need for some form of door protection to eradicate the risk of finger trapping. Michelle explained: “A lot of the doors that we have are connected to the fire alarm, which means that when the alarm goes off, the doors close automatically. So if a resident were standing with their fingers in the door frame and the doors were triggered shut, they wouldn’t have the ability or the reflex to think and jump back, and we really don’t want any accidents of that nature taking place. This was another reason why I considered it important to install the Fingershield devices.”

Aesthetically speaking, Michelle said: “The devices fit very well with the care home’s décor in that I’ve got white on the white doors and brown on the brown doors, so you don’t even notice they’re actually there.”

As a final word, Michelle said: “Having the Fingershields installed has meant that we haven’t had any finger-trapping incidents and the risk to residents is 100% eliminated, which is particularly important for those who are unaware of their surroundings.” Together with a product life expectancy of 20 years and the offer of an automatic free ten-year warranty, the cost of installing Fingershield is relatively very low.

Just like schools and nurseries, residential homes can often be a hot spot for finger-trapping accidents. This is why nursing homes, such as Aughton Park Care Home, are more and more deciding that it makes no sense whatsoever to remain exposed to this type of accident.

Keyworth Leisure Centre Keep Kids Safe

With more and more claims being made against establishments that are regularly frequented by children, leisure centres all over the United Kingdom are staying one step ahead of the game where accidents are concerned…

One such centre is Keyworth Leisure Centre in Nottingham. In September 2005, Senior Assistant Manager, Mr. Andrew Wykes, took it upon himself to protect the doors throughout the leisure centre with Fingershield devices to put an end to finger trapping as children throw themselves into a kaleidoscopic mix of sports and activities.

Sharp on the risk of finger trapping, Andrew said: “We’ve had Fingershields fitted on all the internal doors where customers and staff are likely to be and also on specific doors where we’ve had certain problems with finger trapping in the past, mostly involving children.”

Since it opened its doors in 1976, Keyworth Leisure Centre has grown to welcome some 12,000 visitors every month and the majority of these are children, including large school parties. The leisure centre caters for all ages, from toddlers right up to teenagers and adults. In fact, Andrew mentioned that the age range currently varies from 1 to 93 years of age!

From Monday to Friday, a wide range of clubs and courses are held, from football and swimming, through gymnastics and trampolining, to Kick-boxercise and Aquafit. And when the summer holidays come round, the programme of events gets even more exciting, with sports such as salsa dancing, golf and fencing to try out!

So with such a colourful array of activities going on, what made the centre turn its attention to anti-finger-trapping devices? Andrew enlightened us by saying: “We decided to get the Fingershield devices installed because of finger-trapping accidents we had experienced in the past. Our major problem was areas where we had younger children, as they don’t realise the risk involved in putting your fingers near a door, so those were the areas we covered first.”

Andrew went on to explain that the part of the leisure centre experiencing the most problems was the casual swimming area and the pool-side changing rooms, where several devices have since been fitted. What is more, the centre has a crèche facility for toddlers aged 2 and upwards. Andrew said that toddlers tend to be quite inquisitive and wander around, making them quite vulnerable to such risks.

However, there was one thing in particular that brought Keyworth Leisure Centre to Fingershield’s door, as Andrew pointed out: “Fingershield was actually recommended to us by a relief Duty Manager who worked at another leisure centre that had fitted the device to all of its doors. So we basically noted the cost of getting the devices installed and also the implications of the accidents we’d been having and then decided to go for it!”

Huntingtree Primary School Protect Pupils from Dangerous Doors

As well as managing the maintenance and upkeep of Huntingtree Primary School in Dudley, Mr. Steven Gray, the school’s Caretaker, is responsible for making sure that the school is free from potential hazards to both pupils and staff.

Having spoken to Steven recently, he told us what it is about Fingershield that made the school install over one hundred devices.

Steven has attended various meetings with the school’s insurance company who advised that unprotected doors are a serious hazard. Accordingly, the school’s Board of Governors wanted to address this problem, and so, Steven began searching for a door safety device that meets the specific needs of the school.

Given the high number of metal doors at the school, such as fire exit doors, Steven was looking for a product that can be used to protect both wooden and metal doors.

When asked what it is about the Fingershield device that caught his attention, Steven replied: “There has been a lot of touting in the press from companies offering door safety protection devices and we used to have one or two other products for the timber doors, but they were cheaper in quality and weren’t very effective. It was also important that we found a product that could be fitted to metal fire doors as well, which altogether made us choose Fingershield.”

Of the difference that Fingershield has made to school life, Steven said: “We certainly do have more peace of mind now. I have been looking for the past two years for a product that protects children from getting their fingers trapped in doors and, until I discovered Fingershield, I couldn’t find a device that covers both timber and metal doors.”