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- Create a consumer safety specification that covers the performance requirements and methods of test to ensure the satisfactory performance of a Children's Standing Tower.
- This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize injuries to children resulting from normal usage and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of a Children's Standing Tower.
- It will address (at a minimum) head entrapment, tip over, safety restraints/bars, durability, potential for falls, and pinch points.
- For purposes of this consumer safety specification, a Children's Standing Tower is a free-standing step stool that elevates a child to standard countertop height. The standing tower is made for the purpose of holding a child, up to 6 years of age, who can remain in a standing position due to the child’s own coordination, and normally for the purposes of helping with and/or observing normal kitchen and other learning activities. The standing tower may be height adjustable.
This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize injuries to children resulting from normal usage and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of a Children's Standing Tower.
