GUIDE 50 Third edition 2014-12-15 Safety aspects Guidelines for child safety in standards and other specifications Aspects liés a la sécurité - Principes directeurs pour la sécurité des enfants dans les normes et autres spécifications Reference number ISO/IEC GUIDE 50:2014(E) IE( S @IS0/IEC2014 ISO/IEC GUIDE 50:2014(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTED DOCUMENT @IS0/IEC2014 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii @ IS0/IEC 2014 - All rights reserved ISO/IEC GUIDE 50:2014(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions 4 General approach to child safety ..2 4.1 .2 General .2 4.2 Age descriptors used in this Guide 4.3 Risk assessment. ..3 4.4 Preventing and reducing harm 4.5 The“invisibility" of children 4 4.6 Needs of children with disabilities ..5 5 Safety considerations: child development, behaviour, and unintentional harm 5.1 Child development and behaviour. .5 5.2 Applying knowledge of child development to preventing harm. .9 5.3 Chronological age compared with developmental age ..10 5.4 14 years and above. .10 6 Safe environments for children ..10 6.1 General. .10 6.2 Physical environment .10 6.3 Social environment. .11 6.4 Sleep environment. ..11 7 Hazards relevant for children .12 7.1 General .12 7.2 Mechanical and fall hazards. ..12 7.3 Fall and other impact injuries .18 7.4 Drowning hazards .19 7.5 Suffocation hazards. 20 7.6 Strangulation hazards. 21 7.7 Small objects and suction hazards 22 7.8 Fire hazards 23 7.9 Thermal hazards. 24 7.10 Chemical hazards 26 7.11 Electric shock hazards 27 7.12 Radiation hazards. 28 7.13 Hazards from noise (sound pressure) 30 7.14 Biological hazards 31 7.15 Explosion and fire flash hazards .31 8 Adequacy of safeguards. .32 8.1 General 32 8.2 Product safeguards. .32 8.3 Installation safeguards. .33 8.4 Personal safeguards.. .33 8.5 Behavioural safeguards .33 8.6 Instructional safeguards .34 Annex A (informative) Assessment checklist ..35 Annex B (informative) Injury databases. .37 Bibliography .38 @ IS0/IEC 2014 - All rights reserved ii