It is important to ensure the packaging boxes and items are secured from children. In several industries having childproof systems is a vital component as young children are prone to take items from openable boxes. Because of the potentially lethal consequences and injuries, a set of guidelines needs to be placed, to protect the children.
Most commonly, ingestion of foul elements that leads to the poisoning of children (5 or below) due to children mistaking it as candy and ingesting them. This incident leaves severe injuries every year. Several countries have set rules and regulations for customer safety.
These guidelines are necessary to prevent children to access harmful products and ensure no company violates them.
Childproof packaging has always been significant to pharmaceuticals, toys, beauty products, etc. Packaging specialist design test out the packaging boxes to ensure that they are child-resistant at a maximum rate.
Here are some major points to be considered while acquiring the childproof packaging boxes for your (harmful) products.
1. Secure Opening Mechanism
With almost everyone familiar with childproof packaging nowadays, most companies have developed an opening mechanism, trickier for children. Adults can access the items from the packaging box from the instruction manual. Usually, it will be twists and counterclockwise patterns are used although some items may an extra packaging that prevents item contents intake. Having a security mechanism is the first check on the childproof packaging.
2. Use of Warning Labels & other Messaging Blocks
In the above-mentioned product examples, the next compulsory thing is to include warning labels and relevant information to notify the customer about the potential hazard that the product has young children. Especially for toy products as most may blunt point that or small attachable parts that can be leading to choking hazard. Medicine needs to have this so that it kept in a secured area. Place the warning messages to notify your customers.
3. CR Packaging Testing
For ensuring the packaging boxes have enough child resistance. State guidelines may require you that packaging boxes may need getting through a testing phase in an independent accredited lab whether packaging passes the test or not. The test may include actual children testing packaging itself in a time limit. Whether a child is able to open the packaging box within the timespan ranks the difficulty of opening. Adults should be able to open the packaging box without any ease. The failed packaging boxes are cast aside for revision purposes.
4. Opacity of Packaging
Sometimes the packaging boxes may need to window slot. It may be obligatory in some states. It may apply to toys or some other product but there are exceptions where the first two points are checked out and they are packaged in pure opaque boxes. But whether this point is applied the packaging boxes must have some visibility in regards to the type of content present in the packaging box.
Childproof packaging is necessary to prevent children from interacting with a potentially dangerous product. Therefore these points are put in place to ensure no problems arise and your company is not facing problems from the federal organizations.
