Standards Development

Scope

This document specifies requirements for the safety of children's sleep bags which are used in the children's domestic sleeping environment (i.e. not under supervision), and designed to provide sufficient warmth so as to remove the need for additional bedding when sleeping in a cot or similar product (e.g. crib/cradle) in which a child is contained. It is applicable to products for use by younger children based on the ability of the children to not being able to climb out of the cot (approximately under the age of 24 months).

NOTE The informative Annex F lists topics of further investigations, which might lead to necessary improvement of the safety requirements of children's sleep bags.

This document does not apply to • products designed for use during the care of premature children, or

• products designed for children of low birthweight (i.e. 2,5 kg – see B.1), or

• for outdoor use or to products designed to keep a child warm in a pushchair or car seats (e.g. foot muff). Some of the requirements in this document are not suitable for articles used by hospitals when nursing sick children.

These include:

• openings for access for tubing to the patient or monitoring devices to monitor the patient,

• use of fastenings which may not be durable to industrial laundry processing used by hospitals. If a part of the children's sleep bag is designed to offer additional function (e.g. play function), this part will, in addition to the following requirements, be subjected to safety requirements related to relevant standards (see B.1).

Purpose

The first edition of this project has not been "harmonized" within the perspective to support the EU directive related to the general safety products and the structure of the first edition need to be redrafted to be hazard-based. In addition, the first applications of the first edition led to collate useful feedback information in order to improve its content.