New ISO 8124-4 Update – Toy Safety for Swings and Slides

I spent Saturday afternoon at a birthday party for our two-year-old nephew (cute kid, I must say!)  And how did the birthday boy spend his party time?  On the slide that’s part of the new landscaping his parents put at the end of the summer!  Like many other types of toys, there’s an ISO safety standard for family use slides and swings, and it’s just been updated.  The new ISO 8124-4 2nd edition, “Safety of toys – Part 4: Swings, slides and similar activity toys for indoor and outdoor family domestic use,” is available now from Document Center Inc.

This new update extends the types of toys covered by the standard.  The requirements section now includes inflatable activity toys and paddling pools.  The warnings and labeling clause 5 has also been expanded to include a new clause 5.4 specifically on warnings.  This is in part a response to the added dangers of the new types of toys introduced in this edition.

The expansion of the requirements clause 4 means that the clause 6 for test methods has also been lengthened.  As you might expect, the new sections are 6.9 on the deflation of inflatable activity toys and 6.10 for the static load test for paddling pools with non-inflatable walls.

Users of ISO 8124-4 will also be interested to find that the Annexes have been extended.  In additional to Annex A on Rationale and Annex B on playground surfacing material consumer information sheets, there’s a new Annex C.  This new Annex addresses safety labeling guidelines for certain types of activity toys.  What kinds of guidelines does it include?  Information on label definition and location for hazards introduced by inflatable toys and those that may accumulate water are in this section.  And so is information on providing the customer with warnings of the dangers posed by connection tubes for inflating activity toys as well as the possibility of friction burns.

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