ISO 8124-4:2025 Safety of toys

Part 4: Activity toys for domestic use

Published (Edition 3, 2025)

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Abstract

This document specifies requirements and test methods for activity toysfor indoor and outdoor domestic family use intended for children under 14 yearsto play on or in.

Products covered by this document include swings, slides, see-saws,carousels, rocking toys, climbing frames, toddler swing seats and otherproducts often intended to bear the mass of one or more children.

Products not included within the scope of this document are:

a)       fitness and sportingequipment unless attached to the activity toy;

b)       equipment intended for usein schools, daycare centres, kindergartens, public playgrounds, restaurants,shopping centres and similar public places;

c)        juvenile care productssuch as, but not limited to, infant swings, playpens/enclosures, beds orfurniture including picnic tables, cradle rockers and products specificallydesigned for therapeutic use;

d)       pools with maximum depth ofwater over 400 mm measured, between the overflow level and the deepestpoint within the pool.

Inflatable activity toys are included in the scope of this document.However, a powered blower used to continuously inflate the toy is not coveredby this document. Such equipment is considered to be a household appliance andis covered by requirements given in IEC 60335-2-80.^[5]

Some of the main changes are as follows:

• Standard     title modified to reflect it not only covering swings, slides and similar     activities toys, but all general activity toys

• Definitions     for ‘activity toys’, ‘barrier’, ‘declined plane’, ‘hand-gripping     component’, ‘hand-grasping component’ and ‘resilient behaviour’ have been     modified/added

• Conformity     with relevant requirements from ISO 8124-1 emphasized

• Requirements     have been added for materials to be resistant to degradation

• General     requirements for hardware, ropes, crush and shear points,     hand-gripping/grasping points, handrails, etc. have been added

• Certain     requirements/test methods have been modified to aligned with EN 71-8, such     as head and neck entrapment requirements, finger entrapments, toggle test,     etc.

• Requirements/test     methods for slides have been updated

• Requirements/test     methods for swings have been updated to align with ASTM F1148 and EN 71-8

• Requirements     for see-saws enhanced

• Requirements     concerning operating instructions have been added

• Warning     requirements for paddling pools modified to remove symbol options

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