Safety in children's wear

Children crawl, climb, run, jump and generally explore the world around them without any thought of the risks or dangers involved. Our role as adults and parents is to foresee these dangers and to see to it that accidents do not happen. Our policy at Lindex with respect to children's wear is that they must not in themselves be a danger to the safety of children. We are therefore actively engaged in assuring that our children's wear is safe to use.

Our children's wear must comply with the requirements set out in the European safety standards for child safety, as well as with the Swedish accord formulated for detachable hoods. We follow a testing checklist that covers the entire process from design to finished product in order to comply with these requirements. The checklist regulates, amongst other things, the length of drawstrings, the placement of reflector strips, and the design of hoods.

All suppliers who manufacture children's garments for Lindex must be able to produce documentation on needle usage to ensure that no parts of worn sewing needles have broken off and been left in any garment. In practical terms, this means that if a needle does break, all parts of the needle must be presented before a new requisition for a needle can be completed.

No prohibited chemicals, toxic chemicals nor chemicals that provoke allergies are used at all in the Lindex range of children's wear. All of Lindex' suppliers are obliged to enter into a written contract in which they undertake not to use any of the chemicals listed on our blacklist. Regular chemical checks and inspections of our products are carried out by Lindex to assure ourselves absolutely that the suppliers are in fact complying with our demands.

Design of children's wear

Our children's wear is designed to fit our children. We put a lot of thought into designing them so that they will not be offensive to anyone. Consequently, we exclude certain symbols, text and pictures that are foreign to our democratic values. There are clearly differences of opinion between individuals and cultures as to what is offensive and what is not. This makes it hard to judge what is offensive in today's global village. But this just makes the necessity of having a dialogue on these issues even more relevant, and as a company we place enormous value on children, and so we take the responsibility to continue this dialogue on an ongoing basis.