Getting ready for school: how to choose a safe school bag

For knowledge to be easily understood, students need to create conditions for this. For example, to buy a schoolbag, from which the back does not hurt, so in August, many parents go on a shopping trip to prepare their favorite child for school and buy everything they need.

 

Satchels and backpacks occupy in this list, not the last place. How to make the right choice of equipment for carrying school weights, and what requirements theĀ  Rospotrebnadzor has for manufacturers of products for students, we find out at Med About Me.

 

Briefcases, school bags and “similar products”

Among all the school affairs, perhaps the most interesting is preparation for school. The process of choosing new clothes and bright school accessories of all stripes is popular with both girls and boys, first graders and graduates. However, all this wealth must be brought to school. In what? Shopping centers offer a lot of options.

 

We list the main ones:

Briefcase (narrow bag with a handle on the end and clasps); satchel (rigid bag with shoulder straps, which is worn on the back); backpack (bag without rigid parts, which serves to carry things over his shoulders).

 

Many people mistakenly think that they are all identical. This is not true. They are united only by the ability to carry documents, notebooks or books. All other characteristics and parameters are different, as well as all models have their own advantages and disadvantages.

 

Taking care of the health of children, the state identified all the parameters of products in special documents, which listed measures that ensure the safety of “products intended for children and adolescents.”

 

Bright colors, a lot of pockets and the low price of a schoolbag are not a reason to buy. When choosing a portfolio for a school, parents should familiarize themselves with the documents governing all safety indicators in the manufacture of school supplies. These include the laws of the Russian Federation that protect the rights of consumers and the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, the Sanitary Code of Practice regarding the conditions and organization of children’s education, Technical Regulations.

 

The above documents clearly spell out all the requirements for school bags:

Size and weight of the product without teaching aids for different categories of students; the presence of a label on the age of the child; the definition of a knapsack design convenient for the student; requirements for the quality of the materials from which the portfolios and backpacks are made.

 

Along with this, all such products must necessarily be provided with reflective stripes. Necessary and different colors.

 

I want to warn about the many fakes that flooded the market. Counterfeit products cannot guarantee consumers either the quality of production or the quality of materials or the safety of the child.