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By CPSC Blogger on February 25, 2013
Blog in English
 Imprima y cuelgue o comparta este afiche gratis en inglés y español. A partir del 28 de febrero de 2013, se requerirá a fabricantes e importadores de corrales para bebés y niños pequeños realizar pruebas de seguridad a sus corrales para asegurar que cumplen los nuevos estándares federales de seguridad.
Los corrales para bebés son estructuras con un piso y paneles laterales de malla o tela. La mayoría de ellos puede plegarse para guardarse o transportarse.
Los corralitos para bebés en cumplimiento con la nueva norma de seguridad deben tener:
- Barras laterales que no formen una V profunda cuando el producto se doble. Esto impide que un niño se estrangule en la baranda lateral.
- Soportes de esquina más resistentes para prevenir grietas afiladas y el colapso de las barandas laterales.
- Sujeción del colchón al piso del corral más fuerte para prevenir que los niños queden atrapados o se lesionen.
La nueva norma para los corrales para bebés es uno de muchos estándares de seguridad que la Comisión de Seguridad de Productos del Consumidor de EE.UU. (CPSC por sus siglas en inglés) ha aprobado como parte de la Ley de notificación de seguridad de productos infantiles Danny Keysar, o la que llamamos “Ley de Danny”. Danny Keysar falleció en Chicago en 1998 cuando el corral en el cual dormía la siesta, que previamente había sido retirado del mercado, colapsó, asfixiándolo. Esta nueva norma para corrales fue finalizada en honor de Danny y su familia.
Además de la norma de seguridad para corrales, la CPSC ha emitido normativa de seguridad para cunas, barandas de camas infantiles, asientos de baño para niños, andadores para bebés, columpios infantiles y camas para niños pequeños.
Personal de la CPSC está trabajando actualmente en estándares de seguridad para cunas para adosar a una cama, cargadores de mano para bebés, moisés y moisés para corrales y este año propondrá reglas para cochecitos de bebé, cargadores suaves para bebés, tipo canguro y tipo hamaca.
Si usted usa un corral infantil, manténgalo vacío cuando coloque a su bebé en él. Cada año, la CPSC recibe reportes de muertes de niños pequeños por asfixia. Algunas de las causas principales de estas muertes son la colocación de almohadas y colchas gruesas en el área donde duerme el bebé y/o sobrecargar de cosas dicha área. Aquí encontrará más información acerca de cómo poner a dormir seguro a su bebé.
This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2013/02/corrales-para-ninos-entrara-en-vigor-nueva-norma-de-seguridad/
By CPSC Blogger on February 19, 2013
Blog en español
 Print and post or share this free poster in English and Spanish. Beginning Feb. 28, 2013, manufacturers and importers of infant and toddler play yards are required to test their play yards to ensure that they meet new federal safety standards.
Play yards are framed enclosures with a floor and mesh or fabric side panels. Most can be folded for storage or travel.
Play yards that meet the new safety standard must have:
- Side rails that do not form a sharp V when the product is folded. This prevents a child from strangling in the side rail.
- Stronger corner brackets to prevent sharp-edged cracks and to prevent a side-rail collapse.
- Sturdier mattress attachments to the play yard floor to prevent children from getting trapped or hurt.
The new play yard standard is one of many safety standards that CPSC has passed as part of the Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act, or what we call “Danny’s Law.” Danny Keysar was killed in Chicago in 1998 when a previously recalled play yard in which he was napping collapsed, suffocating him. This new play yard standard was completed in honor of Danny and his family.
In addition to the play yard safety standard, CPSC has issued mandatory safety standards for cribs, children’s bed rails, baby bath seats, baby walkers, infant swings and toddler beds.
CPSC staff is currently working on safety standards for bedside sleepers, hand-held infant carriers, bassinets, and bassinet attachments to play yards and will propose rules this year for strollers, soft infant carriers and infant slings.
If you use a play yard, keep it bare when you put your baby in it. Each year, CPSC receives reports of infant suffocation deaths. Some key causes of these deaths are the placement of pillows and thick quilts in a baby’s sleeping space and/or overcrowding in the space. Here’s more information on how to put your baby to sleep safely.
This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2013/02/play-yards-new-safety-rule-to-take-effect/
By CPSC Blogger on August 27, 2012
Updated: Sept. 4, 2012
 In late August, CPSC voted to begin rulemaking to address the serious risks posed by hazardous, high-powered magnet sets. You will have 75 days to comment to the agency about the rulemaking. Your comments are due to CPSC by Nov. 19.
CPSC staff briefed the commission about the magnet hazards at an open meeting on Thursday, Aug. 9.
Between 2009 and 2011, our staff estimates that there were 1,700 cases treated in hospital emergency rooms nationwide related to the ingestion of small, high powered magnets. More than 70 percent of these cases involved children between the ages of 4 and 12.
The agency’s staff is proposing a rule that addresses the size and strength of the magnets. Under the proposed rule, magnets that fit in a small parts tester would be required to have a flux index of 50 or less. Many of the high-powered magnets in the sets sold today, by comparison, are many times stronger.
Magnet sets that do not meet the new requirements could not be sold as a manipulative or a desk toy.
CPSC has published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register. (FR). Now that the proposed rulemaking has published, your opportunity to comment begins. Here’s where you can share your comments about this proposed rule. Your comments must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on Nov. 19.
Rulemaking comments are submitted through the government website Regulations.gov. We will publicize the Federal Register notice and the link to comment on our website, our @OnSafety Twitter account, and in this blog.
We continue to encourage everyone to read the information on our magnet information page. Watch the video. Keep these magnets away from all children and out of homes with children. For us, it’s about keeping kids safe.
This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2012/08/magnet-rulemaking-how-you-can-be-involved/
By CPSC Blogger on May 8, 2012
En Español
Look at your child’s jackets, sweatshirts and sweaters. See nothing unusual? Now, look again. Do they have drawstrings?
For reasons we show below, CPSC passed a rule in July 2011, designating most drawstrings in children’s upper outerwear as hazardous. This essentially means that you shouldn’t see for sale, and your child shouldn’t wear, jackets, sweatshirts and sweaters with dangerous drawstrings. That means no neck or hood drawstrings for upper outerwear in sizes 2T through 12 or S through L. In addition, certain waist or bottom drawstrings are considered dangerous.
 These waist drawstrings and the hood drawstrings above are what you should not see on your child’s clothes. With waist drawstrings, there are three things to look for:
- When the clothing is at its fullest width, the drawstring should not hang out more than 3 inches.
- There shouldn’t be any toggles or other attachments on the drawstring.
- The drawstring must be stitched into the back so that it cannot be pulled to one side.
Here’s why:
Drawstrings can catch on items such as playground equipment or vehicle doors. CPSC has received 26 reports of children who have died when drawstrings in their clothes got tangled on playground slides, school bus doors and other objects. Waist and bottom drawstrings that were caught in cars and buses resulted in dragging incidents.
CPSC first issued guidelines on drawstrings in February 1996. These were then incorporated into a voluntary standard in 1997. Since the clothing industry started following the voluntary standard, deaths involving neck or hood drawstrings decreased by 75 percent and there have been no deaths associated with waist or bottom drawstrings.
Still, we continue to see jackets, sweatshirts, and sweaters made with drawstrings that are dangerous. CPSC has issued more than 130 recalls involving clothes with drawstrings including 8 recalls between November 2011 and May 8, 2012. Here are some recalls from just the past month (as of publication of this blog). So, check your child’s upper outerwear and make sure to follow the instructions on these recalls.
This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2012/05/drawstrings-not-allowed/
By CPSC Blogger on October 17, 2011
One of the power tools that is regularly involved in incidents that hurt their operators are table saws. Based on a two-year study in 2007 and 2008, CPSC estimates that about 67,300 people suffered from medically treated blade contact injuries each of those two years.
According to CPSC’s analysis of table saw injuries, the people getting hurt are often experienced operators, including some who disabled safety devices. Victims reported that the device either got in the way or slowed their work down.
Blade contact injuries are serious. CPSC’s study estimates that, on average, consumers treated in emergency department for blade contact injuries suffered:
- 4,000 amputations per year or 333 each month
- 4,150 broken bones per year or 346 each month
- 2,800 avulsions or 238 each month. Avulsions involve a separation of body parts.
A key question has been: Should CPSC set performance requirements that would make table saws safer? In a unanimous vote earlier this month, CPSC decided to move forward with rulemaking on table saws. This rulemaking will start the process of determining how to best improve the safety of table saws.
So, if CPSC creates a mandatory rule to make table saws safer, what would the impact be? What requirements could the rule include to keep people from disabling new safety features?
That’s where you come in. Consumers, victims, industry representatives: Let us know your thoughts on this issue. You have until December 12 to submit comments. Simply go online to Regulations.gov to submit comments.
This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2011/10/ouch-table-saws-make-the-cut/
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