Childcare is the place where early childhood education begins, which is of great significance to the physical and mental development of children.
The safety problems in childcare have become the concern of parents and public.
To ensure the safety of children is not only the responsibility of parents, but also the important responsibility of education departments at all levels and childcare teachers. At the same time, this is also the factor that designers must consider when planning and renovating the childcare.
How to maximize the safety of children in childcare renovation design?
Sources of Security Risks
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What is security? Security means physical security of the environment and psychological security of the atmosphere of the space. Through comprehensive consideration and analysis of the site and space design, the potential safety hazards in childcare mainly exist in the following aspects:
1.Social security incidents
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For example, children picked up by strangers; Or what is more serious is, children being kidnapped or intentionally injured by a stranger who broke into the childcare. Through these problems, we found that the decoration or renovation of childcare is extremely important in terms of safety design and should not be underestimated.
2.Campus activities
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Activities in the childcare centre occupy a considerable proportion of the school time in the childcare. Improper space enclosure and separation, the safety of the activity space is not comprehensive, unreasonable installation of electrical equipment, space guidance techniques, careless sight treatment, unreasonable plant configuration and other problems may cause harm to children in the childcare centre.
3.Site factor
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Site factors is refers to the physical elements of childcare centre, such as natural lighting, indoor lighting, temperature, ventilation, air quality, sound, material, etc. Since children are still in the development stage of body and mind, they are more vulnerable than adults and are more susceptible to the impact of environmental physical factors.
Due to the development of the city, the site factors of childcare face many challenges: air pollution, noise pollution; Due to the shortage of land or poor development caused by adverse ventilation, insufficient sunshine and indoor lighting design, color collocation, material selection caused by unreasonable problems will affect the healthy growth of children.
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Childcare Renovation Design Safety Countermeasures
In the process of childcare centre construction, it is also necessary to focus on the safety factors of children. Children in the stage of childhood do not have safety awareness, and there is a certain uncontrollable nature in their activities.
Therefore, safety risks should be taken into account in the design and reasonably designed facilities should be used to ensure the safety of children. For example, childcare centre site selection safety, building structure such as window sill, step height, guardrail height, fire safety, electrical safety should have corresponding specifications or considerations.
Based on the above safety risks in childcare, this article proposes the following countermeasures to provide maximum safety guarantee for children in childcare renovation design:
1.Entrance waiting area and gate design
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In order to prevent other people from entering the childcare and to prevent children from wandering away, there should be a good view of the entrance to ensure that the outside certain area can be seen, so that teachers or guardians can see the situation of parents pick up.
The gate of the childcare must be equipped with safety protection equipment, such as access control password locks, fingerprint locks, etc. If there are fences and windows, the guardrail should be installed, and the beautiful design should be under the premise of protection and safety.
2.Material safety
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Childcare renovation materials should choose environmental protection materials, walls are recommended not to set too much decoration, because there is a certain amount of pollution in the paint used for wall decoration, the more decoration means the greater the risk of pollution, for children with poor resistance will affect. Beside that, we must ensure the use of low mercury and low lead materials to keep the environment free from pollution. After the childcare renovation is completed, ventilation is needed for about a month.
It is not suitable to lay foam puzzles indoors. When the room temperature rises, the formaldehyde in the puzzles will grow exponentially with the temperature. We suggest using floor mats that made of environmentally friendly materials, do not use inferior material.
Childcare renovation materials should be durability, flame retardant and fire performance, as far as possible to avoid the use of flammable materials; The use of renovation materials should be easy to install, construction and renew; Make sure there have heat insulation, sound insulation and sound absorption performance. In addition, it should according to the function of the space to choose appropriate material, for instance active area uses flexibility, softer material.
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3.Safety of light and color
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Childcare renovation color collocation and indoor lighting safety also need to pay attention to.
In terms of light, we should first consider indoor natural lighting. When using artificial lighting, we should pay attention to the use of stable light source to avoid the phenomenon of alternating light and dark or flickering. We can adopt the method of “secondary lighting” to avoid direct lighting and protect children’s eyesight.
Good color collocation can enhance the security of environment. Add a few colorful color on large area pure color, can make the space become vivid, the vision of children also can get adjust. If the color of the objects in the space is too rich, they can be arranged in accordance with the order of the hue ring to reduce the visual discomfort caused by the strong color contrast in the past, and also help to ensure the psychological safety of children.
4. Attention to details
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Childcare renovation design also needs to pay special attention to the processing of edges and corners in various places, such as the corner of the stairs and the corner of the corridor, especially the visual corner, which is easy to cause collision accidents.
The position of corner had better increase certain protective measure, even if knock against also won’t cause bigger harm. In addition, childcare tables and chairs should not have edges and corners, it is best to use rounded corners or polished smooth furniture, in order to reduce the probability of children injured.
The plugs of the power supply should be installed out of reach of the children, and there should be a safety warning.
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Conclusion
Children are a group that needs our special protection and help. Childcare is the first small society that children come into contact with. Do not let children’s health be threatened because of the safety reasons of “little paradise“. Of course, the above countermeasures are far from enough, the important thing is still the need for children’s daily education and self-protection, prevention awareness training.
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