Young children might be tempted to:
- Gnaw on the cord of a small appliance
- Put a damaged cord in their mouths
- Chew on an extension cord left on the ground
- Put their fingers in electrical outlets
- Put their fingers between the outlet and the plug of an appliance
- Insert an object into an outlet
Install plug protectors on your electrical outlets
Install plug protectors on unused electrical outlets to prevent young children from inserting objects or their fingers into them.
There are also outlets with a built-in safety mechanism that makes it harder to insert objects into them.
Keep electric wires out of reach
Keep extension cords and the electric wires of your devices (lamp, kettle, radio, etc.) out of reach. If young children pull on these wires, the device could fall and hurt them.
WARNING :
Or worse, your children could chew on the wire and get a serious electric shock (saliva + electricity = DANGER).