【Basic Information】

Australian government has officially released implementation of 4 compulsory standards to minimize causality risk resulted from button/coin batteries. The compulsory standards with transitional period of 18 months will be enforced from June 22, 2022.

• Consumer Goods (Products Containing Button/Coin batteries) Safety Standard 2020
• Consumer Goods (Products Containing Button/Coin batteries) Information Standard 2020
• Consumer Goods ( Button/Coin batteries) Safety Standard 2020
• Consumer Goods(Button/Coin batteries) Information Standard 2020

【Requirement Analysis】

The above 4 standards have prescribed safety and information requirements of button/coin batteries and goods containing button/coin batteries, which include:

1、Safety and Requirements:

• In reasonable and foreseeable or abuse use, button/coin cells should not fall off.
• Doors or lids of battery case or other firmware to stabilize button/coin batteries should be fixed tightly.
• Battery case of button/coin batteries should be fixed enough to avoid children from opening.

2、Marking Requirements

Packaging should mark safety warnings

Specification should mark below warnings and declaration:

1）Warnings in upper case such as DANGER, WARNING or CAUTION;

2）Safety warning conformity；

3）The declaration of batteries out of reach of children；

4）Provided it is lithium battery, marking should declare that in case battery is swallowed or ingested in any body part, severe or deadly injury will occur in 2 hours or even shorter time；

5）Provided it is not lithium battery, marking should declare possible injuries resulted from swallowing or ingesting battery in any body part.

6）Suggestion of immediate medical care if in suspicion of swallowing or ingesting battery in any body part.

【Warm Reminder】The above standards are against the risk of children’s swallowing of button batteries or goods containing button batteries by mistake. Therefore, the toy mostly likely within reach of children is the key controlled goods. Manufacturers producing such goods are suggested to look into the requirements.