Child's play – Standards to make children's toys safer
Issue 20 – September 2010
Recently Standards New Zealand and Standards Australia jointly published Safety of toys – Part 1: Safety aspects related to mechanical and physical properties AS/NZS ISO 8124.1:2010. The Standard:
- reflects the most up-to-date specifications on acceptable criteria for structural characteristics of toys, such as shape, size, contour, and spacings
- includes acceptable criteria for properties peculiar to certain categories of toy such as maximum kinetic energy values for non-resilient-tipped projectiles and minimum angles for certain ride-on toys.
The requirements in AS/NZS ISO 8124.1 apply to all toys that are clearly intended for use in play by children under 14 years of age – from baby rattles to dollhouses to building sets.
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[more]Drybars heated clothes rack dryer banned from sale
Issue 20 – September 2010
On 6 August 2010 Energy Safety banned the sale and use of Drybars heated clothes rack dryer (Model CR888).
The clothes dryers, marked with the serial numbers (batch codes) 912, 921, and 932, are potentially unsafe because of a manufacturing defect resulting in at least two house fires in recent weeks.
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