Children’s Nightwear

Children’s Nightwear – New Labels – Information for Retailers

All children’s nightwear needs to have a fire-risk label on it. From 1 April 2009, a red label means high fire danger, and a new orange label is a warning to choose close-fitting options. Other garments, such as those made of more fire resistant materials like wool blends, can still use the Low Fire Danger label.

Some of these new orange labels may be in a sticker form while they are being introduced but only for a 3 month period from 1 April to 1 July 2009.

Using the sticker form of the orange fire-risk label
If you sell children’s nightwear with the orange label in sticker form, you must ensure that:

•  The sticker is located on the outside of the garment in a prominent place;
• the old “Low Fire Danger” label located at the neck of the garment is permanently removed or erased;
• the label stays adhered to the garment at all times when the garment is available for sale (but may be removable after purchase);
• you have a sign explaining the orange sticker label. This sign must be placed next to the garments for sale, not just at the counter. A sign can be downloaded from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs website

You can add your company logo at the top left corner of the sign.

Advice for parents
Whatever kind of nightwear a child is wearing, fire is still a serious risk. You can help parents choose safe nightwear by highlighting to parents to:

•  always keep children a metre away from the heater
•  choose snug-fitting nightwear
•  remember no nightwear is heat or flame resistant.

Parents should be made aware that if a child is wearing high fire danger nightwear they should stay far away from the fire or heater. But even a ‘low danger’ label doesn’t mean there is no danger. Nightwear that say ‘low fire danger’ can still catch fire if the child is too close.

The following PDF's are signs for retailers to use:
A3 MCA Nightwear Sign.pdf
A4 MCA Nightwear Sign.pdf
A5 MCA Nightwear Sign.pdf