STR works with toy and toy premium manufacturers and suppliers to ensure their products meet industry and regulatory requirements for safety, as well as quality and performance standards. As a key participant in the development and revision of international toy safety standards, STR is expert in assisting clients with product compliance needs.
Our capabilities include:
- Product safety testing (mechanical/physical, flammability, and chemical analysis) to ensure compliance to industry and regulatory standards.
- Product design evaluations to identify and reduce, or eliminate safety hazards, and to support product development.
- Performance and aesthetics evaluations.
- Age determination and product labeling evaluations.
- Development of full quality assurance programs tailored to international standards and/or client custom specifications.
- Behavioral science analysis to determine if an item has the potential of becoming a hazard with intended and unintended users and uses.
- Human factors review to identify potential hazards based on incident databases such as neck strangulation, finger entanglement, choking, and throat impaction among others.
- LHAMA/toxicology/cosmetic services.
- Microbiological testing services.
- Factory audits to evaluate quality assurance systems, production controls, and fair labor and social compliance practices.
- Training in toy safety matters.
- Educational seminars, including new regulations.
- Inspection services to cover every phase of a product’s production.
- Factory-focused engineering services to ensure appropriate and sufficient production flowchart and quality control plan.
STR is ISO HOKLAS and UKAS accredited. Our laboratories test to the industry and international standards including:
ASTM – American Society for Testing and Materials
CFR – Code of Federal Regulations
CRC – Canadian Standards
EN71 – European Union Standards
ISO – International Organization for Standardization
