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Sitting Safe is a simple safety system designed to protect people at risk, who are vulnerable to slumping, sliding and falling from chairs and wheelchairs.
Features:
1. Base made of a strong cotton twill fabric. It has a tail which when in place prevents folk sliding from their chairs. The stitching is polyester thread for strength and durability. The loops are also polyester webbing for extra strength.
2. Polyester webbing belt, long enough to go around most chairs.
3. Versatility, it can be used on most chairs and wheelchairs without modification of the chair.
Benefits:
1. Prevents people from slumping, sliding and falling from chairs.
2. Ensures the safety of people who cannot walk or only walk with assistance and supervision..
3. Adds quality of life by giving dignity, preventing bruising, skin tears, broken bones and the subsequent pain, discomfort and immobility often associated with falls.
4. Resource for coping with some problems associated with memory loss, the ideal is no restraints, the reality is that there are occasions where people have to be protected from themselves. You will find the Sitting Safe an ideal system, giving maximum safety with minimum restriction.
5. Cost effective, just one less doctors visit will pay for it.! Time saved by reducing falls and injuries can be spent giving more quality time to things that people enjoy, like one to one special moments.
6. Discreet, it is unobtrusive when in place, people tolerate it very well.
To Use.
Place base on the chair, loops at waist height. Sit the person well back in the chair. Where you place the buckle depends on the reason for its use. To leave it in front thread the belt through the right loop, around the back of the chair through the other loop ,through the loop in the tail in front and fasten then adjust the belt length so the person is secure but comfortable.
The Sitting Safe is a Restraint so restraint policies will need to be observed.
Washing! Do not put it in hot commercial washers and dryers, use personal wash. The sewing thread is strong but hot washing and drying damages it.
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