Hire For Baby (Cairns) | Cairns Child Safety Fun and Education

Service Areas: Cairns , Gordonvale , Babinda , Innisfail , Port Douglas , Mossman , Mareeba , Atherton Tablelands

Hire For Baby - Cairns & Tropical North Queensland now brings you Baby Restraint Fitters, a dedicated child car restraint service with an emphasis on the importance of ensuring our children are safe whilst travelling in cars. We are professionally trained and accredited by ACRI (The Australian Child Restraint Resource Initiative is a group of professionals who are committed to quality practices in the supply and/or operation of child restraint products or services, whether they are a supplier of components, restraints, (new or hire) fitment services, education aspects or just information.)

This professional service is an extension of our complete baby hire equipment service. They consistently deliver a service that ensures that car restraints are fitted correctly. This service includes ensuring that you understand how to use your child restraint correctly.

Whether they install your own car restraint or hire from them and they assure you the highest quality installation and service is provided.

 

With the new national car restraint laws in effect throughout the country regarding child restraints, HIRE FOR BABY - CAIRNS & TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND are offering an opportunity for families that are perhaps unaware of the current and future requirements regarding child restraints to understand the new laws and have their restraints correctly inspected and refitted, if required.

Queensland legislation now stipulates children are to be appropriately restrained in a motor vehicle in a suitable approved child restraint from birth up to the age of seven.

Specifically, the new laws will require children -

• Up to the age of six months to be strained in a rearward facing child restraint (e.g infant capsule);
• From six months until the age of four to be restrained in either a rearward or forward facing child restraint (e.g child safety seat); and
• From four years until the age of seven to be restrained in either a forward facing child restraint or booster seat restrained by a correctly adjusted and fastened seatbelt or child safety harness

The new laws also deal with the issue of children sitting in the front seat of a vehicle.

• Children up to four years of age must be restrained in the rear of the vehicle (where the vehicle has two or more rows of seats); and
• Children ages between four and seven years will not be permitted to sit in the front seat unless all other seating positions are already occupied by children under seven.

 

By specifying the type of restraint to be used at different ages and where children must be seated in a vehicle, the new laws will reduce the risk of injury caused by the use of unsuitable restraints for a child's size. All Hire For Baby branches are trained and members of ACRI.