hey

I am trying to do my risk assesments in my house and I have vertical blinds.
one goes to window ledge height, the other to the floor.
there is the cords and stuff which dangle down.
what do I need to do with these?

the phone sits on the window sill and the wire dangles to the socket
shall i tack this to the wall?


there was something else too and my brain has gone dead :(

In the past I too had Vertical blinds with dangling cords.

I put a hook on the wall/recess area which was out of reach so that I could wind the cords around it so that there were no dangers to the children.

You do also need to tack the telephone cable as tight as you can so that little fingers can not pull it off.

HTH

I havent done risk assesments for anything i just do a mental onw in a morning, I think the hook is a great idea its so hard to do risk ass is there a form you use or have you made your own?

I know that you do mental assessments but this doesn't really prove anything to the Ofsted Inspector......and now days everything is about proof!

I just use my own.....it can be very simple......

I use a different assessment for each area of the house....i.e. Kitchen, living room, garden etc.

Each assessment has 3 columns to state what I assessed, what the risk was and how I solved the risk or what I did to at least minimise it.

I re-assess these every 6 months or when something changes.

Again I have a very simple daily tick sheet that allows me to check the sorts of things that would change.......I.e. is the windows locked, door locked, animal faeces removed from garden, tempreture stat set at comfortable level etc etc.

HTH

Good advice from Dee

Good luck with this

Angel xx

I do something similar to Dee

More paperwork I'm afraid :(

miffy xx

i remembered the other thing!!!

I am not registering my own bedroom, so I know I need to have some kind of lock on it to keep the little ones out.
problem is I think my cat needs a haven to escape to.
would ofsted be satisfied with a safety gate across my bedroom door so the cat can get in but not the kids?
also need somewhere accesible to him for his litter tray. yeah i know litter tray in my room, what else am I to do lol.

at night when the kids have gone I can move it to the top of the stairs :)
means df will be more motivated to keep it as clean as possible lol

i remembered the other thing!!!

I am not registering my own bedroom, so I know I need to have some kind of lock on it to keep the little ones out.
problem is I think my cat needs a haven to escape to.
would ofsted be satisfied with a safety gate across my bedroom door so the cat can get in but not the kids?
also need somewhere accesible to him for his litter tray. yeah i know litter tray in my room, what else am I to do lol.

at night when the kids have gone I can move it to the top of the stairs :)
means df will be more motivated to keep it as clean as possible lol

That is what I used to do.

In my old house I used to have a litter tray and moved it to bedroom during day and on landing once kids left.

I used gate across the door to stop kids getting in there when they went upstairs to use loo etc.