The consumer watchdog will crack down on dodgy sleep products for young children as it makes toddler and infant safety its “highest product safety priority”.
ACCC deputy chair Catriona Lowe said the focus will be on toys for children under three, products containing button batteries and toppling furniture over the next year.
It had also launched an education campaign to prevent death and injuries from the use of incline sleepers and rockers, bassinets and cots, bouncers and sleep aids.
“Addressing issues for young children, who are among the most vulnerable consumers, is our highest product safety priority,” Ms Lowe told te National Consumer Congress in Melbourne on Thursday.
“This broad body of work will involve continuing compliance, enforcement and education initiatives with a focus on toys for children under three, products containing button batteries and toppling furniture.”
Along with young children’s safety and infant sleep products, the ACCC’s safety focus also includes ensuring the safety of sustainable products and to reduce the risks from reused or second-hand goods that are sold online.
“We’ll continue to encourage online platforms and suppliers to adopt best practices to prevent and detect the sale of unsafe goods as well as monitoring unsafe, non-compliant and banned products online using surveillance technology,” Ms Lowe said.
The regulator would continue to work with online platforms to help prevent and detect the sale of unsafe goods as well as monitor unsafe, non-compliant and banned products online using surveillance technology.
– AAP
