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Totally agree and also, clearly 'Lego' covers a range of actual things: the standard 8-button block is clearly a totally different size to the head of a lego person, for example. I would expect it is the smaller pieces which present more of an issue. Cheers, Ken Kenneth Boyd Technical Design Consultant t: 07967 586974 e: [log in to unmask] w: www.kennethboyd.com On 31/08/2018 12:55, Richard Ellam wrote: > Hi Lettie (and all) > > I think you’re over-thinking this, because the problem of children > choking on small parts is generally recognised to apply to the > under-threes. By the time an average child has reached the age of 36 > months they are generally assumed to have grown out of the habit of > putting everything in sight into their mouths. This is why the choking > hazard labels you see on toys say ‘unsuitable for children under 3 > years of age’. > > Lego is a very common plaything, and therefore the vast majority of > your visitors will be familiar with it from a home setting. I don’t > think you should be setting the wall at such a height that it excludes > five-year olds - If you set it at a height to exclude say 95% of all > five-year-olds you’ll exclude a large proportion of six-year-olds, > too. The LEGO age guide-lines are pretty meaningless as lots of under > sixes live in houses where there’s lots of LEGO because they have > older siblings who play with it, and play with it unsupervised. I’m > sure these tots get stuck in to the LEGO box, too even if their big > sisters and brothers wish they didn’t! I think these guidelines may > have more to do with the ability of children to manipulate small parts > than with safety. > > Choking on LEGO isn’t a major problem in society at large: if it were > the ‘Sun' and similar ‘newspapers’ would be running noisy campaigns to > ban the stuff. > > You should, I think make sure that you provide a warning to parents > that the lego wall is unsuitable for children under 3 because of the > choking hazard presented by the small parts, and also suggest that > children under seven should be supervised while playing with it. > > It might also be worth making sure that your front-line staff (and > their managers, too) know what to do with a choking child, even if > they are not otherwise formally trained as first-aiders. > > Hope this helps > > Richard > > > Richard Ellam > L M Interactive > Science Shows and Hands-On Stuff > [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > www.lminteractive.co.uk <http://www.lminteractive.co.uk> > >> On 31 Aug 2018, at 12:20, Lettie McKie >> <[log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: >> >> Hi All >> >> We are considering installing a Lego wall in our gallery for a new >> exhibition on Factory-Made Housing. The designers are keen to go with >> Lego rather than Duplo because its a more appropriate aesthetic >> choice but I want to make sure we have risk assessed this exhibit >> effectively and worried that Lego might present a choking hazard to >> our younger visitors. The safety measures I have suggested are: >> >> - Wall is at head height of a 6 year old (Lego advised age limit) so >> that Under 5s cannot reach. >> - Safety notice along the lines of ‘please carefully supervise your >> children whilst playing with this exhibit’. >> >> Does anybody have experience of similar interactive walls with small >> parts and can advise? >> >> Many thanks >> >> Lettie >> >> Lettie McKie >> Head of Learning >> New London Architecture - Bringing People Together to Shape a Better >> City >> The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT >> 020 7636 4044 | 07854 568 257 >> www.newlondonarchitecture.org >> <http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/> @nlalondon >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list >> owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Anyone can join for free at any >> time by sending this message to [log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>: Join GEM Firstname Secondname >> Include only the text above, without email signature etc. The title >> of the email doesn’t matter. 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