ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHOOSING RIGHT SCOOTER HELMET FOR YOUR KID.
We all want to keep our kids safe during their scooter ride. But do you know that head injury is one of the most harmful injury for your kid. You can cover it up by choosing a right kinds of helmet for your kid, that will safeguard him from such injuries.You should always have a child wear a properly fitted helmet when riding a bike, skateboard or scooter. If a helmet isn’t the right size, it won’t stay in place and can’t protect your child properly.
Tips For Improved Helmet Use:
- We strongly recommend you not to buy used helmets or helmets that have some kind of visible scars or cracks etc.
- Always look for the helmet that meets all the guidelines for Health and Safety. And it should be approved for sports usage by your local authorities. The standards to look for in the United States are CPSC, ASTM, and/or Snell.
- CPSC – United States Consumer Product Safety Commission
- ASTM – American Section of the International Association for Testing Materials
- Snell – The Snell Memorial Foundation, a non profit committed to improving product safety, and advocating stricter testing measures.
- *In Canada , look for CSA approval (Canadian Standards Assoc.)
- You should change helmet within 3-4 years of usage.Event if it does not have any visible damages.
- Avoid wearing anything under your helmet.This will ensure proper grip for your child’s head.
- Expensive doesn’t always mean the safer. The Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute sent six helmet models to a U.S. test lab: Three helmets were $150+ and three were under $20. The impact test results, as well as performance, were virtually identical among all the helmets, regardless of price.
ENSURE THAT HELMET IS A RIGHT FIT YOUR KID:
Measure your child’s Head Properly: Measure the circumference of the head all the way around by placing the measurement tape at the forehead starting just above the eyebrows
No Matter what, Helmet grip should be firm: When your child moves it’s head up and down helmet should stay snug.
Adjust the Dial Knob Perfectly: Once you ensure that helmet if fit on your head perfectly, Adjust the dial Knob properly by rotating it in clockwise direction for Tightening and anti clockwise for loosening.
Should feel pulling down: Your kid should feel the helmet pulling down on his/ her head when he/she opens her mouth.
Ensure Helmet straps are Even: After making sure that Helmet grip is firm,Also make sure that helmet straps should form a “V” shape at the bottom of your child’s ear lobe.
Ask From Kid: Once helmet is buckled up, ask from kids if the helmet fits right and he/she can move head properly up/down/left/right.Enusring that your kids can see and hear properly during ride is very important.
2-1 Rule: Helmet should stay 2 fingers above your kid eyebrows and should have enough room to accommodate 1 finger above the chin strap of helmet.
