| The
infant car seat which equipped with
safety harnesses will hold an infant
in the event of a crash. |
Convertible car seats protect your
child when they grow too big for an
infant car seat and when they aren't
yet big enough for a booster car
seat. |
Booster
Car Seat rely on a vehicle's seat
belt restraints to protect a child
in the event of an accident. |
Clek
Olli Booster seat is essential for
the safety of growing children,
especially the stubborn type who
think, "boosters are for babies". |
| DO
NOT put them in the front passenger
seat if there is a passenger airbag.
Rearward-facing seats provide
greater protection for the baby's
head, neck and spine than
forward-facing seats. So, it is best
to keep your baby in a
rearward-facing seat for as long as
possible.
Only
move them to a forward-facing seat
once they have exceeded the maximum
weight for the baby seat, or the top
of their head is higher than the top
of the seat. |
Once
children have outgrown a rearwards
facing seat, the best option is to
use a child seat with an integral
harness, the large area of the
harness helps to reduce the risk of
injury if there is a crash. The
bottom attachment between the legs
will also prevent the child from
sliding under, and out of, the
harness.
Once
again, it is safest to keep children
in this type of system until they
have outgrown it.
Only
move your child to a booster seat
once they have exceeded the maximum
weight for the child seat, or the
top of their head is higher than the
top of the seat.
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You should ensure your child is
within the weight range of any
booster seat or booster cushion.
Some booster seats are designed
to be converted into a booster
cushion by detaching the back
rest, and you should always
check the manufacturers advice
about when and how to do this.
Booster seats and booster
cushions do not have an integral
harness to hold the child in
place. The adult seat belt goes
around the child and the seat.
So it is important that the seat
belt is correctly adjusted. The
basic points to note are:
-
the belt should be worn as tight
as possible
-
the lap belt should go over the
pelvic region, not the stomach
-
the diagonal strap should rest
over the shoulder, not the neck
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