Children's Sleepwear: Flammability Requirement Guidelines
General Considerations
The following factors must be considered by the manufacturer, the importer and the retailer before marketing children's sleepwear:
Promotion
A garment promoted, labelled or sold as a children's sleepwear in size 14X or smaller must comply with the requirements of the HPA.
Disclaimer Statement
The fact that a garment bears a label that expressly declares that the garment is intended to be used for a purpose other than sleepwear will not exempt that garment from the requirements of the HPA.
Daywear/Nightwear
A garment that is likely to be used by children for sleeping or activities related to going to bed is considered to be children's sleepwear, which includes loungewear. A children's garment that resembles sleepwear because of its design, pattern or current fashion will be considered as sleepwear even if it is sold, advertised or imported as day-wear. As such it will still have to comply with the requirements of the HPA for children's sleepwear.
Mixed-Style Sleepwear
When sleepwear consists of two or more garments of different styles that are capable of being worn either together or separately, each garment must be evaluated separately to determine the requirement with which the particular garment must comply (see General Considerations - Mixed-Style Sleepwear).
Modified Sleepwear
If a sleepwear has been modified by a permanent addition that changes its style, even partially, to a style subject to item 40, Part II of Schedule I to the HPA, the whole garment must comply with the HP(CS)R. (see figure 3 on General Considerations - Sleeper for an illustration of a modified sleeper).
Adult's/Children's Sleepwear
The dimension of the chest/seat circumference is used to differentiate between children's sleepwear size 14X, covered by the requirements of the HPA and adult's sleepwear. When the chest/seat circumference of a particular garment is less than the dimension set out in the table below, it is considered to be children's sleepwear of size 14X or smaller. Children's sleepwear with a chest/seat circumference greater than the dimension set out in the table below that is advertised, labelled or sold as children's sleepwear of sizes 14X or smaller must also comply with the requirements of applicable provision of the HPA or its regulations. For example, if a polo pyjama sized 14X has a chest circumference greater than 980 mm, it will be considered as pyjama and must comply with the HP(CS)R.
Table of dimensions for size 14X (mm)
|
Polo Pyjama |
Sleeper |
Night-gown, Night-shirt |
Dressing Gown, Bathrobe, etc. |
Pyjama |
Baby-doll Pyjama |
Chest
Circum-
ference
|
980 |
1000 |
980 |
980 |
980 |
980 |
Seat
Circum-
ference
|
980 |
1040 |
N/A |
N/A |
980 |
980 |
|
