On 03/11/2020 07:22, Tim+ wrote:
williamwright wrote:
On 02/11/2020 21:26, wrote:
It's the time of year when many of us start thinking about making toys
for kids and grandkids (and then panic in 4 weeks because there's been
no progress!) so I was just looking around for detailed safety spec
guidance and was surprised that a copy of EN71.1 is freely available
he https://law.resource.org/pub/eu/toys/en.71.1.2014.html
If you're not familiar with ENs they can be slightly hard going but, in
this case, the general principles are given in Annex 2 of the "toys
Directive". The Directive is tough but the annex is fairly easy going:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...9L0048&from=EN

Hope that's some use to someone other than me.

Why not just use common sense?

Because its surprisingly uncommon. ;-)

I mean, just as an example, whoever though that a babys cot with bars far
enough apart for a babys body to fit through (but not its head) was a good
idea?

With the benefit of hindsight some faults are obvious but seemed to elude
everyone until a problem occurred.

Indeed. Car windows that wind up by standing on a child sized lever,
with the ignition off.

Wind Turbines as a source of electricity.

Marxism as a viable political theory.

The world is full of stupidity. Darwin of course says that it doesn't
matter how miserable impoverished or enslaved you are, provided
you manage to produce offspring...



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