Soft baby carrier; (HS: 630790); (ICS: 97.140)

SI 13209 part 2: Child use and care articles - Baby carriers - Safety requirements and test methods: Soft carrier (31 page(s), in English; 8 page(s), in Hebrew)

The requirements of the existing standard, SI 13209 part 2, dealing with soft baby carrier, shall be declared mandatory. This declaration is inline with the mandatory standardization objective to protect human safety.

This standard adopts both the European Standard EN 13209-2: December 2015 and the American Standard ASTM F2236 - 14 and allows compliance with either. The standard's Hebrew section includes the following national deviations:

1.      National deviations from the European Standard (EN):

o     Adds to the standard's scope a clarification that this standard does not apply to sling carriers, which are covered by SI 13209 part 3;

o     Changes the normative references (paragraph 2);

o     Deletes item a) of paragraph 10.3;

o     Adds to table A.1 of normative Annex A a new row with the warnings' Hebrew translation.

2.      National deviations from the American Standard (ASTM):

o     Adds to the standard's scope a clarification that this standard does not apply to sling carriers, which are covered by SI 13209 part 3;

o     Deletes from paragraph 1.4 the standard's scope;

o     Deletes from the standard's scope a few sentences in paragraph 1.6; 

o     Adds to paragraph 8 a requirement that the warnings shall be in Hebrew and provides in the new normative Annex A an official translation.