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The driving force behind this goes back about 15 years when the automotive industry were getting really safety conscious and introduced the HIC Test (Head Impact Criteria) which, if I remember correctly, required the deceleration of the head from 30mph to 0mph over 5.5 inches to avoid (crudely put) the brain coming loose in the skull.
Bulkheads such as galley and toilet units still perform very poorly in thse tests as anyone who have ever dropped a sheet of honeycomb on their head will testify.
The solutions are;
Remove the bulkhead row.
Move all the seat rows back half a metre so the passenger cannot strike the bulkhead.
Fit a seat belt airbag.
I have had a good play with them and they seem pretty idiot proof.
Anyone still up to speed on the latest in this area please feel free to correct my figures as I have been out of the detailed side of this loop of development for around 12 years.