The law requires the parking brake control to be red against a contrasting frame. So that anyone, a grandparent or a stranger helping you onto a tram, can find the one control that stops the pram rolling.
Materials and safety
Every rule here was written after something went wrong.
A pram is used almost every day for about five years. The Australian standard it has to meet is not a box we tick, it is a list of things that have already happened to somebody. This page is what ours are made of, what the standard demands, and why each line of it exists.
The law here is Consumer Protection Notice No. 8 of 2007, which sets the mandatory standard for prams and strollers on the 2000 edition of AS/NZS 2088. Ours are tested to AS 2088:2022 including Amendment 1:2024, the current edition, and fully endorsed by INPAA, the Infant & Nursery Product Alliance Australia. What follows is what that standard actually consists of, and why each line of it is there.
- Tested to
- AS 2088:2022 + A1:2024
- Endorsed by
- INPAA, the Infant & Nursery Product Alliance Australia
- Warranty
- 3 years
- Service support
- To 10 years
What the standard demands
Four systems, and the reason for each.
Permanently attached, never removable. Waist and crotch straps at least 20 mm wide, with the crotch strap no more than 200 mm from the backrest. Geometry that holds a child who has just learned to stand up in protest.
A wrist strap, because a loaded pram rolls faster than you expect. Any loop in it must have a perimeter under 360 mm, deliberately too small to ever fit over a child's head.
When a seat reclines past 150 degrees for a sleeping baby, a barrier must close the gap at the head end, shaped so it can never trap a head instead.
What it is made of
Chosen to last five years, not one season.
Aeronautical grade aluminium, built to carry three kids and still fold with one hand.
Water repellent, with a UPF 50+ canopy on every colourway. Tested free of lead, DEHP, azo dyes, formaldehyde and PFAS.
Real leather on the handlebar and bumper bar, so the bit you hold all day wears in rather than out.
They only work when they are used
Every system above depends on somebody doing one small thing. These are the five, and they are the five people skip.
- 01Harness on, every tripIncluding the short ones. The label says at all times because that is what it means.
- 02Brake on, every stopFlat ground included. Flat ground is rarely as flat as it looks.
- 03Nothing on the handlebarA bag hung off the handle moves the tipping point closer to you.
- 04Tether around your wristOn slopes, ramps and platforms. A loaded pram rolls faster than you expect.
- 05A newborn lies flat and bareNothing added under them and nothing draped over them.
- Mandatory standard
- Consumer Protection Notice No. 8 of 2007 is the instrument that makes a pram standard law in Australia, and it sets that standard on AS/NZS 2088:2000. Every UPPAbaby pram sold here complies with it. It is where the brake, the harness, the tether and the head barrier described above come from.
- Voluntary certification
- Our prams are tested to AS 2088:2022 including Amendment 1:2024, the current edition of that standard, twenty-two years newer than the edition the law requires. Test reports are held by the Australian distributor.
- Substances
- Fabrics and leathers are tested free of lead, DEHP, azo dyes, formaldehyde and PFAS, the group commonly called forever chemicals. Those five are what the compliance sheet covers, which is why they are the five named here.
- Infant & Nursery Product Alliance Australia
- Fully endorsed by INPAA, the Infant & Nursery Product Alliance Australia, the industry body for nursery product safety. UPPAbaby's Australian distributor is a member.
If a safety notice ever applies to your pram, registration is how we reach you directly. Not through a news story. It takes two minutes.
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