Research on the safety of juvenile and children’s furniture from the perspective of use

Function plays a leading and decisive role in the structure and shape of children’s furniture. The safety of the use status of juvenile and children’s furniture is also one of the leading factors. There are many unsafe factors in the use of juvenile and children’s furniture. According to the investigation, a bookcase in a certain house in Shenzhen caused accidental damage due to insufficient depth. For example, when a child sits on a chair and stretches his back, the center of gravity of the chair will move backwards, and the front legs of the chair will leave the ground. At this time, there are uncertain factors, that is to say, there is a safety hazard. Another example is under the children’s desk, because of the needs of the function, there will be a small sliding cabinet or a fixed cabinet. Regardless of the problem of the edges and corners of the desktop, several corners of the cabinet are likely to collide with the children’s legs and cause danger. This requires designers to have different shapes according to different use states when designing children’s furniture for children.

Children also have their own unique range of activities. Although they are still very small, the functional safety design of children’s furniture for teenagers is also one of the important links in furniture design. The overall activity area of teenagers and children’s furniture can be divided into five types of small activity spaces: sleeping, rest, storage, learning and games. In order to meet their needs, we will discuss teenagers and children’s furniture from several activity functional areas in the following chapters. Security by design.