In message <ce6db03e.1c77e%[email protected]>, dated Sun, 29 Sep 2013,
Scott Xe <[email protected]> writes:
Is it the responsibility of the suppliers to prohibit the use of
products to by children? Nowadays, every family has lots of
electronics and electrical appliances, prohibiting the use by children
seems unrealistic. What is the trend for the standards to catch up
this area
ISO/IEC Guide 50 is being updated to Edition 3, Safety aspects -
Guidelines for child safety in standards. There are some points to note:
1. Being an ISO/IEC Guide, it covers virtually everything, so electrical
and electronic equipment doesn't feature strongly. But it is covered;
2. Some texts are rather loosely worded in the draft, implying much more
than the writer can have intended;
3. It doesn't clearly address the issue, 'Is it the responsibility of
the suppliers to prohibit the use of products by children?', perhaps
because the answer is assumed to be self-evident, 'No standard can
prohibit users of products from doing anything.' If it could, we
wouldn't need police and lawyers!
Standards associated with legal regulations can, of course, prohibit the
marketing of products with certain features, construction or
inadequacies.
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John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
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