
Furniture Products Risk Assessment Guidance and Template
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This guidance and template are designed to assist furniture manufacturers in conducting risk assessments for their products and documenting them in a technical file
SKU: FPRA/T/0722
FIRA International on behalf of the Furniture Industry Research Association
8 Page PDF and editable Excel template
Published 12/07/2022
Version: 1
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This support document and editable template were created to aid furniture manufacturers in performing risk assessments for their products and recording them in a technical file.
This support document covers the following steps:
- Step 1: Describe the product and its hazard
- Step 2: Identify the type of consumer you want to include in your injury scenario with the furniture product
- Step 3: Describe an injury scenario in which the hazards cause an injury or negative health effect to the consumer
- Step 4: Determine the probability of the consumer being injured by the hazard
- Step 5: The injuries that hazards cause to the consumer have different degrees of severity
- Step 6: Determine the risk level
- Step 7: Check the risk level is plausible
- Step 8: Develop several injury scenarios to identify the highest risk of the product
- Step 9: Document in the template and pass on your risk assessment