Children are able to get these lids off more than parents realize. In addition to that, parents often left the lids off entirely because they had trouble getting the lids off themselves which left the medicine completely exposed for children to get their hands on. Parents are lulled into unsafe behavior on the false premise that they are actually safer. The presence of such behavioral responses does not imply that all government regulations are necessarily ill conceived. What the responses do suggest, however, is that one cannot view safety as simply being a matter of engineering controls.
Individual behavior plays a key element .
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