A near tragedy in which a baby fell from a window several metres off the ground at a home in Seaforth is a timely reminder to ensure that windows that are above the ground floor have child safety locks installed. Thankfully the child is stable in hospital.
Strata Community Australia (NSW) President, Greg Haywood said apartment owners especially needed to take notice and ensure that they are acting to install approved child safety locks now.
“While the NSW legislation gives owners until 2018 to have the locks installed an accident can happen anytime as demonstrated yesterday,” Mr Haywood said.
“Don’t wait for another baby or child to be injured make sure your owners corporation is acting on this today. It can be a costly exercise for owners corporations to undertake the retrofitting of locks but this is not an excuse to put it off for another four years.”
SCA (NSW) is particularly concerned that owners corporations are putting off installing locks believing they can do it in one project just before the 2018 deadline.
To read the entire media release on this issue click here.