Safety and Testing

A cot is the one thing you buy where looking good isn't enough. Your baby will spend more than 20,000 hours in it, mostly while you're asleep in another room.

The first thing we spent money on when we started Bold Baby wasn't timber, or tooling, or a designer. It was a copy of the Australian cot safety standard AS/NZS 2172:2013. We read it cover to cover before we drew a single line.

Every dimension in this cot was set by that document before we made one decision about how it should look - the spacing between the bars, the depth of the sides, the height of the mattress base, the radius on every edge. Millimetres, all of them non-negotiable. The colour, the panels, the whole idea of a cot you can restyle: that was always the idea but it came afterwards, and it had to fit around the safety requirements rather than the other way round.

So rather than tell you it's safe and leave it at that, this page sets out how the Bold Baby Cot has been tested, by whom, and against which standards - with the report numbers, so you can check rather than take our word for it.

From 19 January 2026, suppliers of household cots in Australia must comply with two new mandatory standards, introduced on 18 July 2024. The Bold Baby Cot has been independently tested against both parts.

The safety standard

The Consumer Goods (Infant Sleep Products) Safety Standard 2024, as amended in February 2025, sets design, construction, performance and testing requirements. For household cots it requires the cot to meet one of three recognised standards: AS/NZS 2172:2013, ASTM F1169-19, or BS EN 716-1:2017. The Bold Baby Cot complies via AS/NZS 2172:2013, passing every applicable requirement in independent testing at Bureau Veritas.

The information standard

The Consumer Goods (Infant Products) Information Standard 2024 governs the warnings marked on the cot itself and the safe-use information supplied with it. This is a separate requirement from structural safety. In January 2026 the cot was tested against this standard at Furntech-AFRDI.
Furntech-AFRDI, Australasian Furnishing Research & Development Institute - Test Report 18347-1, 29 January 2026. Tested to the requirements of the Consumer Goods (Infant Products) Information Standard 2024. Every assessed requirement was recorded as compliant - safe-use and assembly information, recommended mattress dimensions, height-adjustment instructions, country-of-origin and importer markings, and the permanent safe-sleep warnings on the product and its packaging.

Testing tells you one sample passed. It doesn't tell you the 100th cot off the line is the same as the first. So we built our own quality checks on top of it.

Before any production run ships, our manufacturer photographs and films every individual component with its measurements shown. Those images come to us and we cross-check each one against the plans and specifications the standard set. Where anything looks marginal, we measure it ourselves. Bar spacing, panel thickness, base height, side-rails, spindles, the radius on a corner – if anything isn't within an accepted tolerance, it doesn't pass.

Before a production run ships, Jim flies out to our manufacturer and spends the time on the line, inspecting parts by hand as they come off it — thousands of pieces, one at a time.

It isn't the fastest way to run quality control. But we put our name on something babies sleep in, and we want to have held it before you do.

• Place your infant to sleep on a firm, flat surface
• Place your infant on their back
• Do not put objects or accessories in the sleep environment
• Do not place the cot near a blind, cord, strap or similar item

For safe sleep guidance, visit Red Nose Australia or Healthdirect.