Locking cabinet

[Rogue]

hi all!  

our social worker said we needed to lock up our medicines and cleaners, not just put them up high. She said lock and key or combination.

if you did this, what did you use?

we were thinking filing cabinet or a tall cabinet like for in the garage.  

Ahy suggestions?

[redandblue]

We used a wooden box that we put a key lock on it for all medications (this is kept in our kitchen). And we have a cupboard in our basement that has any cleaning materials that has a key lock on it as well. Now that we have been matched, I can say that in our experience all of the things that we stressed over prep apron and making sure was 'right' they have never even bothered to check. We also needed to have a written emergency evacuation plan that is practice quarterly. There were a few things during our home study that weren't quite finished that was written as ' will safety proof as necessary' , as we had a wide age range that we were opened to. That also has not been checked. Lol. I guess they just want to make sure they know that you will do what is necessary, and assume that you did.

[gnomesweetgnome]

We have to lock up our medications, but cleaners can just be on a high shelf. For our meds we have 2 locking tool boxes under our bathroom sink. We also have a locking bank bag for refrigerated medications, as well as another for psychotropic medicaitons (those have to be double-locked in TX, so we'd put the meds in the bag and then in the toolbox). You can also look into using magnetic cabinet locks, which have a "key" to release the magnet. We have those on the cabinets where we keep our booze.

[delenire]

We used a small safe for stuff we would use often and we plan to put the rest of medications in our gun safe.

[justbeth]

For meds we got one of those over the toilet cabinet things and DH installed a keyed lock on it. For cleaners, we are found a few old metal school lockers that we want to put in the mud room. We plan to use one of those to lock the cleaners in. We haven't installed them yet though.

Here is the bathroom cabinet

[Rogue]

Yesterday I went out and got a tool box and combo lock. It perfectly fit medications and easily fit in the linen closet. And! There are two unlocked bins on the top where screws and nails are supposed to go that perfectly fit bandaids and a first aide kit. If our social worker likes this, I saw foot lockers definitely big enough to fit the cleaners and will pick one up later!