Extract:
Amendment 1 to this Standard adds requirements to address safety issues identified with coin/button batteries and batteries designated R1.
Equipment containing one or more coin/button cell/R1 batteries shall have safety warnings in the instructions accompanying the equipment.
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19 September 2016
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is urging businesses to adopt a new Code designed to reduce the number of deaths and injuries from children swallowing button batteries in Australia.
Button batteries are a little known but severe injury risk for children. Every week, around 20 Australian children present to an emergency department following exposure to button batteries, including ingestions and insertions. Incidents are most common among very young children and toddlers, with the majority of cases involving children younger than six years.
The following standards have now been published:-
Single compliance mark—end of transition period approaching!
The single Regulatory Compliance Mark (RCM) was introduced on 1 March 2013 with a three-year transition period to 29 February 2016.
Suppliers must register on the online national database and start using the RCM by 1 March 2016.
The final step to product compliance involves labelling the product:
Steps to compliance
1. Identify the applicable labelling notice
2. Identify the applicable technical standards (prescribed in the relevant labelling notice) and the testing requirements
3. Demonstrate product compliance
4. Complete a Declaration of Conformity (DoC) and maintain compliance records
5. Register as a ‘responsible supplier’
6. Label the product
The ACMA regulatory arrangements require a supplier to apply a compliance label to a product before the product is supplied to the Australian market.
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