The primary danger with bunk beds may be the ability to fall from the best bunk and injure themselves in a variety of ways; a child cannot be monitored throughout the night or for every minute that they are playing in their room so there's always a danger of a child falling from the best bunk height and hitting bedroom furniture, along with this may be the risk of a child underestimating the height and jumping during playtime or a kid slipping through the guardrail spacing and becoming strangled.
Although a fall alone could serious hurt a kid, furniture surrounding the bunk bed can pose a further risk. Objects like blind cords are extremely dangerous; they can effortlessly become wrapped around a child’s neck and several deaths have occurred due to the child’s dressing gown cord wrapping about the neck during the fall. Such cases are very rare but they do raise the question of how safe our kids are in bunk beds. However, bunk beds are an excellent way of construing some responsibility upon your child and as mentioned previously they are an excellent space saving device, so they shouldn’t be dismissed completely.
There are several guidelines that ought to be followed and communicated to your child to make sure that they operate the bunk mattress like an ‘adult’, should you have more than one kid include them when discussing the bunk mattress rules. Although it's recommended that children under the age of six are not allowed to sleep or play on the bed, and bear in mind that even if they are supposed to be sleeping around the bottom bed they will still somehow end up within the best bunk at some point. If you do happen to have a younger child in the house it is worth purchasing a bunk bed that can be separated into two singles until the younger kid is old enough to sleep on a bunk mattress.
Ensure that you buy a bunk bed that has secure guardrails that prevent a kid from easily rolling off the bed, guardrails can pose a danger for strangulation therefore if there is a gap of at least 31/2 inches (89 mm) between the lower edge of the guardrails and the upper edge of the mattress frame cover this with some sort of board to prevent the child slipping via.
Choose a ladder that's fixed - a ladder that has a gradient rather than being totally vertical may make it slightly easier for ascent and descent. Many things you can do at home to further increase the security of the ladder is to buy some sticky back rubber, available from most hardware shops, and put it on the steps and handles to give them some grip. It's also worth purchasing a night light so that during the night your child can clearly see the ladder.
Encourage security when kids are playing the bedroom; accidents often take place when a kid kicks the underside from the bunk mattress above resulting in it falling down on them. To prevent minimize the chance of this happening make sure you will find secure slats under the mattress preventing it from falling through.
The main emphasis when buying a bunk bed is teaching your child the safe practice of using it; they need to understand the importance of security and what can take place if they don't act in a safe manner.
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