1930s
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Safety Standards
Committee and
begins partnership
with the National
Safety Council
(NSC).
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to establishment of
a National Accident
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Our toy safety assurance program focuses on
developing standards, educating the industry to ensure
compliance and guiding caregivers on safe play.
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consensus process
used to develop and
update it) and makes
it a legal requirement
with passage of the
Consumer Product
Safety Improvement Act.
TOY SAFETY MILESTONES:
24/7 PRIORITY FOR THE INDUSTRY
1115 Broadway • Suite 400
New York • NY 10010 • USA
Tel: 212.675.1141 • Fax: 212.633.1429
[email protected]
The U.S. toy industry is a proud leader of global
efforts to provide children with toys and games
that are safe and fun.
www.toyinfo.org
www.toyassociation.org
TIA partners with
other organizations
to promote the
alignment of standards
for enhanced global
toy safety.
TIA develops
www.ToyInfo.org
website as a free
resource for parents
and other caregivers
on safe and fun toys
and the importance
of play.
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physical growth of children.
WORKING HARD TO PROTECT AMERICA’S YOUNGEST CONSUMERS
AN ONGOING COMMITMENT
SAFETY FIRST
RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP
GIVING BACK
As a leader in the development of proactive toy safety
As producers of children’s products, the toy industry holds
In addition to the efforts of individual toy companies, the Toy
initiatives, the Toy Industry Association and its 500+
itself to a standard that extends well beyond safe and fun play.
Industry Foundation (TIF) works year-round to help ensure that
members are dedicated to keeping young consumers safe.
The three key pillars of our toy safety assurance initiatives
focus on:
•
Our efforts to protect young consumers take a holistic
approach and include:
•
establishing, implementing and maintaining uniform
•
educating the industry and other stakeholders about
these standards and ways to verify that—from design to
delivery—toys entering the U.S. marketplace comply
with stringent safety requirements;
•
providing parents, grandparents and other caregivers
•
•
consumer product categories commonly found in the home.
ongoing partnership with parents, government officials,
•
physicians, health and safety professionals, and technical
experts to ensure that our safety assurance programs
incorporate the latest child development research, product
•
ensure that toys entering the U.S. market comply with all
children’s charities have received more than 9 million new toys
relevant standards and regulations;
… valued at more than $70 million.
working with experts, organizations and governments
SUPPORTING ECONOMIC GROWTH
From toy inventors to store clerks in every state from
Alabama to Wyoming, the toy industry supports an estimated
providing www.ToyInfo.org as a 24/7 resource for
533,177 jobs (FTE) generating $25.8 Billion in annual wages for
parents and other caregivers who are looking for facts,
the U.S. workers who help to bring safe and entertaining toys
tips and other information about toys, toy safety and play;
to kids across the country and around the world. TIA members
promoting safe and fair working conditions in toy
account for approximately 85 percent of the 3 Billion toys sold
factories worldwide through the ICTI CARE ethical
in the U.S. each year … a $21.2 Billion U.S. domestic
manufacturing process;
toy market.
advancing environmental sustainability practices and
exploring ways to reduce the environmental impact of
assessment techniques.
toy products, production and packaging;
•
the “tools of play” into the hands of deserving kids. Since the
Foundation established The Toy Bank in 2003, over 1,000
and manufacturing innovations, science, and risk
U.S. toy safety standards and regulations are among the
My Stuff Bags Foundation are vital components of efforts to get
promoting toy safety compliance practices to help
production innovation as well as emerging hazards;
ensure safe play.
For more than 35 years, the toy industry has worked in an
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testing requirements keep pace with design and
encourage positive play experiences and, above all,
These efforts keep toys ranked among the safest of 15
other difficult situations. Partnerships with organizations such
around the globe to assure that toy safety standards and
with guidance on how to choose appropriate toys,
chronic illness, the stress of having a parent in the military, and
Product Safety Commission to advance the
requirements;
•
experienced by children who are affected by poverty, abuse,
working with States, Congress and the U.S. Consumer
implementation of appropriate laws and safety
risk-based national safety standards;
the joy, comfort and learning that comes from toys and play is
encouraging responsible marketing and
most stringent in the world and provide the model for many
communications to children in both traditional media
of the rules in other countries.
and online.
“Strong toy standards support the
production of safer toys in the marketplace.”
Inez Tenenbaum, Chairman
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
“The industry realizes that maintaining
consumer confidence is critical… They
held themselves to a higher standard. I am
really pleased.”
Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)
in response to industry efforts to strengthen
the toy safety assurance system