Baby Carrier Safety Standards

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Baby carrier safety standards. Encouraging industry to adopt voluntary safety standards and providing consumer education on how to safely use soft infant carriers and baby slings will help reduce the numbers of incidents. Baby carrier safety is the most important aspect of choosing the best baby carriers for your infant. Baby carriers including infant slings are a great way to bond with your baby and keep him close. If you use a baby sling or are planning to use one after the birth of your baby you should know about some new federal standards that have recently been released by the u s.

There is no australian standard for baby carriers slings and backpacks. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. Making baby products since 1961 it launched europe s first baby carrier back in 1973 and has been synonymous with babywearing ever since. Consumer product safety commission cpsc to make sling carriers safer and prevent deaths and injuries to young children.

Soft infant and toddler carriers like all products that are designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age or younger must be tested by a cpsc accepted third party laboratory for compliance with the soft infant and toddler carrier standard and all other applicable children s product safety rules. Australian safety standards for prams and strollers can be found here. Standards for other baby transport and walkers. But the following tips can help you choose a safe baby carrier.

For safety the brand or model of sling you use actually matters far less than how well it is. When a laboratory meets the requirements as a cpsc accepted third party conformity assessment body the laboratory can apply to the cpsc to have 16 cfr part 1226 safety standard for soft infant and toddler carriers included in the laboratory s scope of accreditation of cpsc safety rules listed for the laboratory on the cpsc web site at. Please insert link to baby carriers vertical when available. Last march the brisbane times stated that one in 20 babies carried in a sling suffered injury.

Link not yet available at time of writing wed 1 july 2015. But in recent years the brand and its carriers have come under fire from parents and some paediatricians for not being safe.