Recreational and Sports Products

Canadians enjoy many different sports and outdoor activities. Health Canada wants to help make sure that the products you and your family use for recreation and sports are safe and that you know how to use them properly.

This section will help you report or learn about unsafe products, find safety information about sports and recreation products, and learn what Health Canada does to help keep you safe. There is also additional information for industry and professionals.

Want to report or learn about unsafe products?

Keep your family safe! Before buying or using sports equipment, learn about unsafe products:

• Advisories, Warnings and Recalls
• Second-hand Products and Garage Sale Safety

To report a health or safety complaint (incident) with a product:

• Report an Incident Involving a Consumer Product or a Cosmetic

Parents, caregivers: find product safety information

Summer Sports Products

• Bicycles
• Playground Equipment
• Skateboards, Scooters and In-line Skates
• Tents
• Trampolines

Winter Sports Products

• Face Protectors and Hockey Helmets
• Ice Skates, Sleds and Toboggans

Additional Resources

• Sun Safety
• Publications for Consumer Education
• Contact the Product Safety Office nearest you
• Subscribe to Consumer Product Safety News
•  Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan
• Legislation and Guidelines

Industry and professionals, keep up-to-date

•  Child and Youth Injury in Review, 2009 Edition, Spotlight on Consumer Product Safety
• Get information on manufacturing, importing or selling consumer products in Canada
• Read our reports and publications for Industry & Professionals
• Information is available on the following hazards related to Consumer Products; Chemical, Flammability and Mechanical & Electrical

How does Health Canada help keep you safe?

We work with industry and the public to help prevent product-related injuries and to promote safety and the safe use of recreational and sports products. We also encourage the design of safer products for the Canadian market by giving importers and manufacturers hazard and product technical information.

Health Canada takes action on several fronts to help keep you safe. We:

• conduct research on potential hazards related to consumer products
• raise awareness of potential risks of injury through our product safety advisories, warnings and recalls
• develop and enforce product safety regulations and standards
• provide channels for reporting a product-related injury or death, or a safety-related issue with a consumer product