Play yards and play yard mattresses; Domestic safety (ICS code(s): 13.120); Equipment for children (ICS code(s): 97.190)

Petitions Requesting Rulemaking To Amend the Safety Standard for Play Yards To Require a Minimum Thickness for Play Yard Mattresses, and To Standardize the Size of Play Yards and Play Yard Mattresses; Request for Comments; (2 page(s), in English)

Notice of petitions for rulemaking - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or CPSC) received on 29 November 2021 two petitions regarding play yards and play yard mattresses. These petitions seek a rulemaking to amend the Commission's regulation, Safety Standard for Play Yards, 16 CFR part 1221, to address the hazard of infants becoming entrapped between the edge of a play yard and the play yard mattress and suffocating ("gap entrapment hazard").