New Infant Product Safety and Information Standards

The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, the Hon. Stephen Jones MP, has made new safety and information standards for infant sleep products and inclined non-sleep products. These standards have been introduced to reduce the risk of death and injury to infants.

• The Consumer Goods (Infant Sleep Products) Safety Standard 2024, and
• The Consumer Goods (Infant Products) Information Standard 2024.

The new safety standard applies to all infant sleep products including products such as rockers, bassinets, household cots and folding cots. It establishes requirements to address hazards relating to incline, rigidity and curvature of the sleep surface. It also provides that no sleep product can have an inclined sleep surface greater than seven degrees. The new safety standard incorporates requirements from the repealed mandatory standards for household cots and folding cots.

The new information standard applies to infant sleep products as well as inclined non-sleep products. It requires the provision of safety information and warnings to ensure parents are better informed of safe sleep practices and the hazards associated with infant sleep products.

The new standards were introduced on 18/07/2024 and provide a period of 18 months for suppliers to comply with their new obligations. From 19/01/2026 suppliers must comply with the new standards.

From 19/01/2026 suppliers of folding cots and household cots must comply with the new safety standard. This gives them the option of continuing to comply with the repealed mandatory standards up until 18/01/2026.

Further information is available on the PSA website, the Legislative Instruments and in the Explanatory Statements.