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How to Adjust your Safety Harness or Waist Tether from Childharness.ca

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Follow these instructions to adjust any of our harnesses or tethers.

Your harness is adjustable and will last your child for years. See the pictures below or watch my YouTube video How to adjust the harness.

Whether you have purchased our Baby Harness for your little 18 month old or our Special Needs Safety Harness for a larger toddler or a child with Autism or Down syndrome, you will be able to lengthen the straps and expand the harness to fit over their growing body.

Every place on the harness that has 2 layers of webbing -> the top layer is EXTRA WEBBING that you will use to make the harness bigger.

All you have to do is move the slider to free up some webbing, then feed that webbing back through the slider to the buckle. This lengthens the chest strap.

The same process is used to lengthen the shoulder straps. Move the front slider to free up some webbing, then feed that webbing back through both sliders. The webbing will "move around" the d-ring and the shoulder strap will be longer.

The Child Harness or the Special Needs Harness should be snug but not tight when fitted properly on your child.

It's true that your harness is fiddly to adjust. This is because it MUST maintain its integrity when under tension. If it didn't, it would easily slide out of shape and slip off your child.

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How to adjust the Special Needs Safety Harness

You can watch the How to adjust the harness video or follow the steps below.

Adjusting the fit of your new harness is a simple matter of moving the black sliders back and forth to shorten or lengthen the straps.

Just like shortening the shoulder straps on a new backpack, or lengthening the strap on a camera case to wear across your shoulder, the webbing moves back and forth through the sliders and through the buckle pieces.

The same method is used to change the length of the shoulder straps and the chest straps.

These pictures are old (we don't use the locking carabiners anymore) but they give you an idea of how to adjust the harness.

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You will receive your harness adjusted to the chest measurement that you gave on your order form. And since you measured your child when wearing a light t-shirt, their new harness will be ready to be worn over similar clothing.

This works great in the summer time!

But it's not always summer...especially here.

The webbing between the two sliders on that strap is the extra webbing that you use to make the harness bigger (e.g. to fit over a sweater or a jacket).

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By moving the second slider toward the back of the harness, you "free up" a length of webbing that you then feed through both sliders to make that strap longer.

If you put the harness on your child and there is a 2 inch gap between the buckles at their back, lengthen each chest strap by 1 inch.

You must lengthen the chest straps evenly so the front panel, made up of the two shoulder straps and two chest straps, stays centred on their chest.

Lengthen (or shorten) the shoulder straps so the O-ring sits just below their shoulder blades.

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The O-ring is in the correct position if you can buckle the top chest strap through its support loops and the chest strap passes just under their armpits.

The Special Needs Safety Harness should be fitted snuggly on your child - snug, not tight!

When fitted properly, the harness will be extremely comfortable to wear and will not be restricting to your child.

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