I did have a safety measure for keeping from plugging my glow driver into the 12 volt side of my duplex AC recepticle. I always had the glow driver shut off and I plugged the starter in first. If it didn't work, I knew I had to plug it into the other recepticle. Also, I didn't use my starter in the house, so there wasn't a danger of plugging it into a hot AC recepticle.

Like I said, this was done back when people had a certain amount of common sense.

As far as the cords are concerned, I always set-up a certain way. This also made sure the cords were automatically out of the way.

I always try to addapt to doing things the best/safest way and don't see cords as being any problem, what-so-ever.