While imported special purpose child restraints all comply with one or more overseas standards, there is limited independent information and advice available about their safety performance and how they stack up against the rigorous Australian Child Restraint Standard. The testing program will provide the first national information about the safety and performance of special purpose child restraints for children with disabilities and medical conditions. Mobility and Accessibility for Children in Australia Ltd (MACA) has launched AuSAP with funding from the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) and in-kind support from Britax Childcare and Neuroscience Research Australia. Regular child restraints sold in Australia are held to very high safety standards, but families of children with disabilities and medical conditions have not had access to the same level of information on child restraint safety. Nine special purpose child restraints imported and sold in Australia will undergo frontal and side impact crash tests at the Britax Childcare Crash Test Facility Laboratory in Melbourne’s west as part of the Australian Safety Assessment Program (AuSAP). In a world-first program, the Victorian Government is crash testing specialised child restraints used by children with disabilities and medical conditions to shed more light on their safety performance.
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