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AHFA Announces Second Annual Furniture Safety Week Plans
August 5,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Industry 
AHFA is preparing for its second annual Furniture Safety Week, which will be October 6-10. The initiative was launched last year to engage all segments of the home furnishings industry in public conversation about furniture and home safety.
Furniture Safety Week has three key objectives. First, the effort strives to improve consumer awareness of home safety issues that involve the industry’s products, including furniture tip-over hazards, recliner safety and bunk bed risks.
Second, the campaign elevates the home furnishings industry’s integral role in developing and maintaining effective product safety standards. Under the leadership of AHFA, the industry advocates for product regulations that provide the greatest degree of safety for the greatest number of American consumers. AHFA conducts research, recruits member company executives for important task group activity and builds collaboration with outside stakeholders. All of these efforts help drive continual improvements in product safety and declining incidents involving the industry’s products.
Finally, the annual effort seeks to enhance cooperative relationships with consumer safety organizations, particularly those dedicated to protecting children, like Parents Against Tip-Overs.
A toolkit with social media graphics and messages was developed last year and is being updated for 2025. Press releases, templates for in-store signage and suggestions for online and store events also will be available on the Furniture Safety Week pages of AHFA’s Alliance4Safety website.
Helpful resources for consumers will also be posted on the site. AHFA originally launched Alliance4Safety (A4S) in 2020 to provide educational resources to help protect the health of home furnishings industry workers and to preserve their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. AHFA broadened the A4S focus in 2023 with plans to make the website a repository for a wide array of health and safety information related to home furnishings.
A4S continues providing useful insights for its industry partners in the event of any future pandemic, but now also provides resources to help Americans maintain safe and healthy homes. Last year, AHFA used the site to help communicate a nationwide recall of certain tip restraints. A4S filled more than 2,000 consumer requests for replacement tip kits as part of that effort.