This website is for everyone who buys and uses consumer products and for businesses that make, import and sell them. By working together we can all help minimise injuries, illness and death related to unsafe goods.
Legislative changes due to take effect in January 2011 will make complying with Australian product safety laws easier for local and overseas suppliers.
Following a voluntary recall of 35 lines of garmets from its Big W stores, Woolworths has provided an undertaking refrain from supplying children’s nightwear products that do not comply with the Standard. Woolworths will also make a $200,000 donation to the Sydney’s Children’s Hospital.
The mandatory standard for children's toys containing magnets was declared on 16 February 2010 and comes into effect on 1 July 2010. It covers warning labels required for packaging, and instructions to prevent serious illness that can result if children swallow hazardous magnets.