Parents for Window Blind Safety

In June of 2002, Matt and Linda Kaiser peeked into their twin’s bedroom before the couple turned in for the night. The Kaisers loved to watch the fraternal twins sleep with their little 4-year-old girl by their side. One summer night, they snuck into the twins room, what they found was horrific. Their little girl was hanging from the inner cord of the window blind. She was limp and cold. There was no heartbeat. After all the babyproofing the Kaiser’s did to their home, even keeping the cords out of reach of their children, these efforts did not prevent this accident. They later learned that on many window covering products, inner cords could be pulled out even if the pull cords were out of a child’s reach.
Parents for Window Blind Safety was founded a few months later in November 2002. In 2018, after years of advocacy, the Industry removed cords from stock products in the USA. In 2020, Canada published a new regulation banning hazardous cords from all window covering products.