Child Safety Screen Guards

Ordinary window screens create a false sense of security.

Kids and Windows.
LOOK OUT!

Between 1990 and 2008 an estimated 98,415 children were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms for window-fall-related injuries.

Get the Facts

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Says:
Window-Related Falls

Kids are more likely to die or be severely injured from window-related falls than any other kinds of product-related falls.

Injuries from Falls

More than 5200 kids are treated in emergency rooms each year for injuries related to
window-falls.

Deaths from Falls

Each year about a dozen kids, 10 years old and younger, die from these window-fall injuries.

Safety Precautions

The precautions protect kids from window-fall injuries.
Kids Love Open Windows

Kids are curious.  There's a lot to see and hear.  It's almost like being there.

Do's & Don'ts

Keep furniture away from windows. Ordinary window screens create a false sense of security.

Child Safety Screen Guards

These are not ordinary window screens.
Child safety screen guards withstand the pressure - minimum 60 pounds static weight - from kids pushing or leaning.

Media Coverage

Our child safety screen guards, Tough Tek Metals®, withstand 100 pounds static pressure, far exceeding the 60 lb standard, and keep children on the safe side of an open window.

What Clients Say About Child Safety Screens

Lendlease hopes to finish installing Tough Tek Metals window safety screens in the majority of 156,000 upper-story windows in its 40,000 military houses by 2026. They initially tried using limiting devices on windows, which allows the window to open only a limited distance. However, installation fire departments pushed back on these devices because they block escape in the event of a fire. So, Lendlease’s innovation group and the environmental health and safety team worked with industry to see what was available, and teamed up with Lansing Housing Products to develop a strong screen, said Phillip Carpenter, Chief Operating Officer, Lendlease Communities . What’s most exciting is the potential for this innovation to make its mark beyond Lendlease.

Lendlease Communities

After explaining the problem of children falling from windows, and how they could help, Brian Houlihan and the entire labor force at Lansing Housing Products took on the project with enthusiasm and purpose.  They took it on, and with the assistance of the Iowa State University Engineering Department came up with a patented Child Safety Screen.

When asked to do a Benefit/Cost Analysis to determine the impact of the Child Safety Screens when installed on existing large multi-unit affordable housing developments it was found that such installation saved property management approximately 98% of all window maintenance costs. 
The screens simply save money as well as save children

Jim Graham Executive Director | National Association for Child Window Safety