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Development of deliverables on general and common safety aspects on mechanical hazards for child care articles.
Preventing injuries is a shared responsibility. The challenge is to develop products, Including manufactured articles, including their packaging, process, structures, installation, services, built environments or a combination of any of these which minimize the potential for causing deaths or serious injuries to children. A significant aspect of this challenge is to balance safety with the need of children to explore a stimulating environment and learn. Injury prevention can be addressed through design, engineering, manufacturing controls, legislation, education and raising awareness.
Child care articles constitute a group of products with large variations between the different products. However many safety hazards associated with this diverse group of products are very similar. Deliverable document is intended to identify many of these common safety hazards and give details that enable similar safety principles to be applied to the drafting of specific standards across the group of products. The safety requirements and test methods given are intended to give guidance and to lead to consistency when writing safety standards for child care articles. It’s recommended to make reference to or use these general and common safety aspects when drafting specific product standards. In addition, it can assist those with a general professional interest in child safety. The safety requirements detailed do not constitute an exhaustive set that can be applied to all child care articles. This application to particular products should be evaluated by experts. In the specification rationales are given to explain the potential hazard. Wherever possible, requirements, test equipment and test methods common and applicable to all child care articles are defined.
The deliverable document for mechanical hazards will provide guidance to those developing and revising standards, specifications and similar publications. However, it will contain important information that can be useful as background information for, among others, designers, architects, manufactures, service providers, educators, communicators and policy makers. It will also provide useful information for auditors and safety inspectors in the absence of a specific standard.
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