Baby Restraint Fitters by Hire for Baby, is an extension of our complete baby hire equipment service… our service now extends to include child car restraint fitting for your personal equipment.

Hire for Baby brings you a site dedicated to understanding child car restraints with an emphasis on the importance of ensuring our children are safe whilst travelling in cars.

Our franchisees are professionally trained and accredited by organisations including ACRI, Mobility Engineering and WA Roadwise.

We deliver a service that ensures that car restraints are fitted correctly. This service includes ensuring that you understand how to use your child restraint correctly.

Whether we install your own car restraint or hire from us we can assure you the highest quality installation and service is provided.

With the new national car restraint laws coming into affect in November (NB: this is different for each state) regarding child restraints, Hire for Baby are offering an opportunity for families that are perhaps unaware of the current and future requirements regarding child restraints to understand the new laws and have their restraints correctly inspected and refitted, if required for a small fee.

The new laws will require children to be appropriately restrained in a motor vehicle in a suitable approved child restraint from birth up to the age of seven.

Specifically, the new laws will require children –

• Up to the age of six months to be restrained in a rearward facing child restraint (e.g. infant capsule);

• From six months until the age of four to be restrained in either a rearward or forward facing child restraint (e.g. child safety seat); and

• From four years until the age of seven to be restrained in either a forward facing child restraint or booster seat restrained by a correctly adjusted and fastened seatbelt or child safety harness.

The new laws also deal with the issue of children sitting in the front seat of a vehicle.

• Children up to four years of age must be restrained in the rear of the vehicle (where the vehicle has two or more rows of seats); and

• Children aged between four and seven years will not be permitted to sit in the front seat unless all other seating positions are already occupied by children under seven.

By specifying the type of restraint to be used at different ages and where children must be seated in a vehicle, the new laws will reduce the risk of injury caused by the use of unsuitable restraints for a child's size. Source: RTA

All Hire for Baby branches are trained and members of ACRI. The Australian Child Restraint Resource Initiative is a group of professionals who are committed to quality practices in the supply and/or operation of child restraint products or services, whether they are a supplier of components, restraints, (new or hire) fitment services, education aspects or just information.