Sunday, May 4, 2008

safety

The COTS Main Street family shelter has safety concerns. Mops are left standing in hallways and have fallen on the backs of very young children.

There is a long, sharp, wire on the floor, attached to the heater in a bathroom on the end of the hallway on the second floor. Staff has been asked many times to remove it as a young child has become tangled in it.

The sink fills quickly with water and does not drain properly. It's disgusting. This makes it hard to wash hands and brush teeth. We've asked staff for three months to fix it and they haven't.

There are open windows on the first and second floors without screens that young children have opened on their own and that they can easily fall out of.