✅ Retailer Readiness Checklist — Infant Sleep & Inclined Non-Sleep Products (Effective 19 Jan 2026)
🧪 1. Test Reports
☑ The infant sleep products standards take full legal effect on 19 January 2026, and retailers are now firmly in the enforcement window. Do you have valid test reports proving every sleep product complies with the new safety standard (Consumer Goods (Infant Sleep Products) Safety Standard 2024)?
☑ Ensure reports are product-specific, cover design, construction and performance, including sleep surface requirements (firm, flat, angle limits, gaps, etc.).
☑ If you’re selling mattresses, they also need to be certified or documented as meeting the relevant requirements.
☑ Reports must be on file and accessible now — don’t wait for a regulator to ask.
📦 2. Packaging, Instructions & Warning Labels
☑ All products (sleep + inclined non-sleep products) must include mandatory safety information and warnings on the product, packaging, and instructions.
☑ Warnings must be visible, prominent, legible, permanent — not a tiny footnote somewhere nobody sees.
☑ If your product is an inclined non-sleep product (like a rocker, bouncer, swing), it must carry clear information about risks and safe use — even if it’s not designed for sleep.
☑ Check that the online listing mirrors the label/packaging warnings exactly.
🛒 3. Retail Readiness — POS & Online Safety Info
☑ In-store signage and online product pages have correct safety warnings and information required by the standard.
☑ You have staff briefed on the new standards so they can answer customer questions confidently.
☑ Remove or update any marketing imagery implying sleep use where it isn’t compliant.
🗣 4. Listen to Suppliers — But Verify Everything
☑ Suppliers may say a product meets the rules — that’s not compliance for your business unless you’ve seen and verified the test report and warnings.
☑ Treat supplier claims like a starting point, not the finish line.
☑ Compliance documentation must be current (not old test reports for outdated standards).
⚠️ 5. Any Doubts? Remove or Deactivate
☑ If you cannot unequivocally prove compliance for any SKU (in store or online):
➡ Deactivate the listing
➡ Remove the product from shelf
➡ Don’t sell it until you have proof
Missing docs = enforcement risk. Simple.
👮♂️ 6. Hold On Tight — Regulators Are Watching
🔎 The ACCC and product safety regulators are starting enforcement from day one on 19 Jan 2026.
📁 Keep your compliance files organised and easy to access — they may inspect or ask for evidence at short notice.
🛑 Be ready for audits, takedown requests, and supply chain queries.
🧠 Quick Reality Check
If you haven’t already:
🔥 STOP selling anything without documented evidence it meets the mandatory safety and information standards.
🔥 Don’t assume compliance just because the product used to be “allowed” — the rules changed.