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  • Mandatory standards make particular safety or information features compulsory for the legal supply of products in Australia.
  • It is an offence to supply goods that do not comply with mandatory standards.
A wardrobe toppled over in a bedroom

New toppling furniture mandatory standard starts 4 May 2025

A baby safely asleep in a cot with a parent's hand on it.

New infant sleep products mandatory standards begin 19 January 2026

A pile of button batteries

Button battery standards aim to reduce risk of severe internal burns

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Blue bean bag

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.
Choking
Suffocation
Portable folding cot

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.
Bone fracture or break
Bruising
Concussion
Cut
Entrapment
Strangulation
Suffocation
A baby asleep in a cot

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.
Bone fracture or break
Bruising
Concussion
Cut
Entrapment
Strangulation
Suffocation
A baby asleep in a cot with a parent's hand on it. The cot is flat and clear of hazards.

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.
Bone fracture or break
Bruising
Cut
Entrapment
Strangulation
Suffocation
A helium cylinder blowing up a balloon

Non-refillable helium cylinders mandatory standard

Non-refillable helium cylinders must contain some oxygen and must be labelled according to the mandatory standard.
Suffocation

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