AS/NZS 1754:2000
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Child restraint systems for use in motor vehicles
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01-02-2000
Since 1970s there has significant attention focussed on the way children travel in cars and a with an increase in knowledge, technology and compliance in this industry, child deaths and serious injury, as a result of vehicle accidents, have been greatly reduced.
Australia has been working side by side with the European Union and the United States to develop requirements and standards that would ultimately provide the safest alternative for restraining children in vehicles. Research plays the main role in the development of these requirements which is expensive and time consuming but provides the information required for the development of new and safer restraint systems.
On a global scale, requirements developed for the Australian and New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1754:2000 Child restraints for use in motor vehicles are considered the most stringent in the world. Research in Australia has led to the introduction of the top tether strap, which provides an increased level of protection. This has been a requirement in AS/NZS 1754:2000 for a considerable length of time but has only recently become a requirement for restraints in the US.
The development of standards for a higher level of protection has resulted in lower death and injury rates. Comparative studies* of injuries to children have shown that there is a far greater risk of death or injury to a child in restrained in an adult lap-sash seat belt than a child restrained in an approved child restraint.
Currently, the Australian and New Zealand Standard is under revision to include the requirement for ISO fix attachment, which is a new development for the increased safety of child restraints. Also to be included is the requirement for side impact testing, another development that has undergone considerable research. Publication of the new Standard is expected in December 2002.
AS/NZS 1754:2000 is referenced in the Australian Design Rules and current legislated states that no Child restraint may be sold in Australia that does not meet the requirements specified in AS/NZS 1754.
* Children in car crashes Dr M Henderson, 1994.
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