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Window Treatments CEO explains why blind cords can't be easily regulated

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Thu, 12 Feb 2026, 6:48pm

Window Treatments CEO explains why blind cords can't be easily regulated

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 12 Feb 2026, 6:48pm

An industry expert says it's not practical to regulate blind cords. 

A coroner's released a report on the death of three-year-old Tilly Cambie in 2023, after a cord tangled around her neck.

She's one of several children to die that way since 2009. 

They recommend mandatory blind standards - which the Government's ruled out. 

Window Treatments chief executive Graeme Rose says blanket regulations wouldn't suit every household.

"You can imagine someone installing a blind in a kitchen window with a bench in front of it, and an elderly person trying to operate that blind from an angle having a very short cord." 

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