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Sleep Council sets four workshops on flammability for February '04

David Perry -- Furniture Today, November 23, 2003

Nashville, Tenn. — Bedding producers pondering how they will comply with stringent new open-flame mattress standards will be getting some practical help on that issue early next year.

The Sleep Products Safety Council, a bedding industry group that focuses on product safety issues, has set four flammability workshops for February 2004. Two will be held in California, where tough new mattress flammability standards will be enforced beginning on Jan. 1, 2005.

SPSC officials announced the dates for the workshops at an International Sleep Products Assn. meeting here in September.

The workshops are designed to help manufacturers better understand how to comply with the looming California regulations, said Pat Martin, executive director of the SPSC.

"The SPSC's goal is to offer assistance and real 'take-home' value regarding specific elements of the test," she said.

The workshops will include tabletop exhibits by suppliers of fire-resistant bedding materials, who have been showing their wares at a number of industry events in the past year.

Here's the schedule of workshops:

Feb. 3: Northern California. Location to be announced.
Feb. 4: Southern California. Location to be announced.
Feb. 10: Chicago. Location to be announced.
Feb . 12: Charlotte, N.C. Location to be announced.

While California will be the first state in the nation to implement tough new mattress flammability standards, those standards are expected to affect most bedding producers in the country. Producers who don't meet the California standards, even if they don't ship beds to California, could face some serious legal problems, according to bedding observers and legal experts.

It is expected the California standard will become, in effect, a national standard, observers say.

A federal standard on mattress flammability also is in the works. It would pre-empt any state standards.

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