KID is excited to release four new masterclass courses as part of the KID Design Safety Toolkit. The new courses are designed for entrepreneurs and businesses that create children’s products and provide information, insights and case studies around designing for safety from leading industry experts.

KID’s Nancy Cowles stated, “The caliber of expertise provided by the people behind each course is unparalleled, and we are so grateful to have support from global leaders in children’s product safety. The first phase of the KID Design Safety Toolkit has been well-received, and we look forward to adding this next level of information across key children’s product areas including Sleep, At Home, Play and Out & About.”

The four new courses take a deeper dive into how to create and design products more safely in Sleep, At Home, Play and Out & About categories. Leading experts in each area share their knowledge on various design hazards pertaining to each category such as cribs, furniture, toys, and strollers and how to mitigate those hazards.

The new courses are add-ons to the original Toolkit which was released in 2022 and is a general design safety course. Original Toolkit topics include understanding consumer behavior in the real world, designing and manufacturing safety, the role of market research, marketing with an eye towards safety and age grading and developmental considerations. Spanish and Mandarin subtitles are now available for the general Toolkit course. Both the original Toolkit and the new masterclasses are available free of charge at www.kidsafetytoolkit.org.

Users must complete the general course (approximately 3 to 4 hours) to access the four new courses, which were designed in mind for those who specialize in one or more of the major children’s product categories. The Toolkit also provides users with downloadable resources.

Learn more and register for the KID Design Safety Toolkit here. Major funding for the Toolkit was provided by Amazon. Additional funding was provided by BreathableBaby, ASTM International, Etsy, and QIMA. Read our full contributors list here, including the advisory committee and expert course speakers.

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