International standard for mechanical hazards of childcare articles officially released.

On August 25, it was learned from the State Administration for Market Regulation that the International Organization for Standardization has officially released the international standard "Childcare Articles - General Safety - Part 2 - Mechanical Hazards". Mechanical hazards in childcare articles refer to the injuries that children may suffer due to mechanical risks in various products during design, production, and assembly, such as cuts caused by sharp edges, pinch injuries caused by moving parts, and entanglement caused by rope accessories, which are among the prominent risk factors threatening children's safety. This international standard, based on the characteristics of childcare articles, innovatively establishes a comprehensive safety requirements system encompassing 19 dimensions including the concept of mechanical hazard safety, accessibility risks, and dangers of moving parts, covering comprehensively 13 types of mechanical injury risk scenarios that children may face when using products. For example, regarding the danger of rope loops wrapping around a child's neck causing strangulation and suffocation, the standard requires "after being straightened out, the length of the rope should not exceed 220mm and the length of the loop should not exceed 360mm"; and for the danger of product moving parts trapping a child's fingers causing pinch injuries, the standard proposes that "the gap between product moving parts should be less than 3mm or greater than 12mm".