New Crib Safety Highlights

Starting today, all importers, distributors, manufacturers, and retailers of cribs must offer only cribs that meet the new and improved full-size and non-full-size crib standards set by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).  Safer cribs will mean a safer sleep for babies across the country.  On December 15, 2010, the CPSC voted unanimously to approve new mandatory crib standards, establishing the most stringent crib safety standards in the world.

Highlights from the new rules include:

1. Ending the manufacture and sale of dangerous, traditional drop-side cribs.
2. Stronger mattress supports and crib slats.
3. More durable crib hardware.
4. More rigorous safety testing.

CPSC has recalled more than 11 million dangerous cribs since 2007.  Drop-side cribs with detaching side rails were associated with at least 32 infant suffocation and strangulation deaths since 2000.  Additional deaths have occurred due to faulty or defective crib hardware.  The new standards aim to keep children safer in their cribs and to prevent deaths or child injuries such as:

• Fractures
• Suffocation
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Lacerations

Starting on December 28, 2012, child care facilities, including family child care homes and infant Head Start centers, as well as places of public accommodation, such as hotels and motels, and rental companies must use only cribs that comply with the new crib standards.

For more information on crib safety and the most up-to-date information on how to create a safe sleep environment for your baby, visit CPSC’s crib information center at: www.cpsc.gov/cribs.  Also, the CPSC has a great Q&A page covering the new requirements.

Source: CPSC

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Ken Levinson is a Chicago-based child injury attorney and child safety advocate. If your child has been injured or worse, please call Ken Levinson at Joseph, Lichtenstein and Levinson at 312-346-9270 or e-mail ken@thesafestline.com. Although based in Chicago, Ken works on child injury cases across the country. If your child has been injured by a crib, contact Ken immediately.

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