New toppling furniture mandatory standard starts 4 May 2025 New infant sleep products mandatory standards begin 19 January 2026 Button battery standards aim to reduce risk of severe internal burns
Fulltext search (required) Topics Injury hazard Baby and toddler products 3 Chemicals and poisons 1 Home and garden 1 Pin topics filter Allergic reaction 3 Amputation 1 Bone fracture or break 17 Brain injury 15 Bruising 13 Burn 8 Choking 10 Concussion 13 Crushing 9 Cut 5 Dislocation 2 Drowning 4 Electric shock 1 Electrocution 1 Entrapment 11 Eye injury 2 Infection 6 Internal injury 14 Piercing of skin 3 Poisoning by ingestion 9 Poisoning by inhalation 1 Sprain 1 Strain 1 Strangulation 7 Suffocation 5 Pin injury hazard filter Clear all Suffocation 1 - 5 of 5 items shown Bean bags mandatory standard A mandatory safety standard applies to bean bags, bean bag covers and bean bag filling packaging. The products must be sold with a warning label and the openings of bean bags and bean bag covers must comply with the child resistance requirements. Folding cots mandatory standard The folding cots mandatory standard applies to folding cots that are portable, used for sleeping and which can be folded when not in use. It also applies to playpens with a floor. Folding cots must have safety warning markings. Household cots mandatory standard The household cots mandatory standard applies to all household cots used as permanent sleeping enclosures. This includes cots that are rectangular with slat walls, circular with walls that have no slats and cots that convert to a toddler bed. Household cots must have safety warning markings. Infant sleep products mandatory standards There is a new safety standard for the design, performance and testing of infant sleep products. There is a new information standard requiring warning and safety information for infant sleep products and non-sleep inclined products. Non-refillable helium cylinders mandatory standard Non-refillable helium cylinders must contain some oxygen and must be labelled according to the mandatory standard.