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Marked Engaged, Opens Anyway

Validating a Household Safety Walkthrough's Latch-Engaged Checklist Item Against a Standardised Pull-Force Test

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities validates 412 kitchen cabinet child-safety latches' walkthrough-recorded status against a standardised pull-force test, finding the checklist's engaged-and-functional item substantially over-credits function and that neither professional installation nor self-checking narrows the gap.

AuthorsPetra Umbile, Sten Okwuosa
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.h4tc39
Pages6
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_h4tc39,
  author       = {Petra Umbile and Sten Okwuosa},
  title        = {Marked Engaged, Opens Anyway: Validating a Household Safety Walkthrough's Latch-Engaged Checklist Item Against a Standardised Pull-Force Test},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.h4tc39},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-validating-a-household-h4tc39/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}