The environment at home should be a secure and safe one for each child.
Children should have a comfortable, fun, creative and imaginative world of play within their homes.
We all want to keep our kids safe in our own home.
This article is written to educate parents and loved ones of children about the new safety requirements for bean bag chairs.
I want to educate and familiarize everyone with the fun, comfortable and unique seat a bean chair can be.
Before the new safety requirements were established in the nineties by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were incidences of children climbing into a bag chair and suffocating on bag filler.
This is why the CPSC looked closely at bean bag chairs, and new safety requirements were put into place to ensure the safety of children.
Zipper pulls were too easy for children to open and gain access to the bag filler causing inhalation and suffocation.
The CPSC and several bean bag chair manufacturers came up with new requirements to make it virtually impossible for children to open the chairs.
Zippers should have locking zippers that children would not be able to open.
The old style chairs have zippers that have a small T shaped piece on the zipper, should be taken away from children immediately and the manufacturer contacted.
Fifteen or more manufacturers were involved in this corrective action and repair recall.
Since this recall manufacturers have redesigned and made a safer bean chair.
Bean chairs should be made well with the highest quality materials, double stitched seams, double overlapping zippers and have child safety locking zipper pulls.
These zipper pulls should be made so that only an adult using a paper clip or safety pin can unzip and access the bean bag filler on the inside.
They should be made from high quality material for maximum durability.
Elite Products, Inc.
, one of these companies that have a quality product.
Each chair has two locking zippers that are overlapping.
They use thick commercial grade fabrics with double stitched seams for maximum durability.
Preventing the previous occurrences from happening is the main focus of bean bag manufacturers today.
We all want safety to be a priority.
When shopping for a chair please remember these safety required features and make an informed decision on the product that you want in your home.
Make sure they meet all of the safety requirements of the CPSC.
The best thing to do is to ask questions and make sure you are getting a product that is safe for everyone in the family, especially your children.
A bean bag chair can be comfortable, fun and unique seating for everyone.