FURNITURE

BRC Global Standard for Consumer Products Issue 3 - Furniture Guideline
 

The purpose of this guideline is to provide additional information to help furniture factories implement the Global Standard for Consumer Products Issue 3, and to assist auditors preparing to visit such sites. It should be noted that the guideline does not contain any additional requirements to those detailed in the Global Standard; rather it gives some indication of how the requirements of the Global Standard might be achieved. It also provides useful information and general guidance on the product safety issues relevant to furniture production, which are equally applicable to those sites not wishing to implement the Global Standard.

The guideline does not replace the Global Standard; it is the requirements of the Global Standard which must be met in order to achieve certification (for more details on the certification scheme, please refer to the Global Standard).

This guideline provides information to enable the safe and legal production of furniture products to be supplied to consumers – that is, furniture destined for private use in a domestic dwelling. Although many of the principles and requirements will be appropriate for furniture products used in a nondomestic environment (e.g. offices, schools, hotels, residential care homes, etc.) such environments may have additional requirements which are not addressed here.

Some of the main product categories that are included within the scope of furniture are:

In addition, children’s furniture, bunk beds and kitchen furniture will be referenced but not covered in full. The guideline excludes childcare articles such as cots and changing tables. The detailed requirements for products other than furniture have not been fully considered here but some of the information contained in the guideline may be useful for other items similar to furniture in their use or manufacturing process.

Other BRC best-practice guidelines particularly likely to be of interest to users of this guideline include:

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