child-resistant caps

Protective bottle tops

Child-resistant caps are closures designed to be difficult for young children to open, typically requiring coordinated motions like pushing down while turning.

Required by law on medication bottles and certain household chemicals, they reduce accidental poisonings: I can never get these child-resistant caps open.

The design assumes children lack the dexterity or problem-solving to defeat them—though determined toddlers sometimes prove otherwise.

Related

medicine cabinet · squeeze · tamper-proof · pharmacy · prescription · over the counter · poison · poison control · toddler · twist · lock · aspirin · packaging · plastic · vitamins · secure · latch · household

Opposites
ease of opening

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Threaded bottle closures

safety design philosophy

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Packaging showing unauthorized access

Family

child, children, childish, childlike, childless, childhood, childishly, childishness, resist

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G