High Chair Safety Tips

• Always use all restraining straps provided. The crotch strap and belt around the waist should be fastened as soon as a child is placed in the chair and unfastened only when the child is removed. Remember, the feeding tray is not a restraint. Only safety straps keep the child from climbing out or sliding down and strangling.

• Be sure that the locking device on a folding high chair is locked each time you set up the chair.

• Never allow a child to stand up in a high chair.

• Don't stray too far from the high chair — especially if the child has shown an ability to unfasten safety straps.

• Keep the high chair far enough away from a table, counter, wall or other surface so that a child can't use them to push off.

• Don't let children play around a high chair or climb into it unassisted.

• Don't let older children hang on to a high chair while a baby is in it. The high chair could tip over.

Adapted from "The Safe Nursery" by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission