ASTM_F_2085_-_12.pdf

Designation:F208512Standard Consumer Safety Specification forPortable Bed Rails1This standard is issued under the fixed designation F2085;the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.INTRODUCTIONThis consumer safety specification addresses portable bed rail incidents that were identified by theU.S.Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC).In response to incident data supplied by the CPSC,this consumer safety specification attempts tominimize the following type of potential hazard through labeling and performance requirements:entrapment between the portable bed rail and mattress in the bed rail structure and entanglement onprotrusions.Entrapment of a child by the head or neck can result in asphyxiation.This consumer safety specification is written within the current state-of-the-art of portable bed railtechnology.It is intended that this specification will be updated whenever substantive informationbecomes available that necessitates additional requirements or justifies the revision of existingrequirements.This consumer safety specification is not intended to address all the hazards of bed rails that areeither blatantly misused or used in a careless manner that disregards the instructional literature andwarning statements provided with each bed rail.1.Scope1.1 This consumer safety specification establishes require-ments for the performance of portable bed rails.It also containsrequirements for labeling and instructional literature.Thisconsumer safety specification does not cover guardrails thatfall under the scope of Consumer Safety Specification F1821 orguardrails that are designed for a specific model of bed andwhich attaches at the headboard or footboard.1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to mini-mize hazards to children resulting from normal use andreasonably foreseeable misuse of portable bed rails.1.3 For the purpose of this consumer safety specification,aportable bed rail is a device intended to be installed on an adultbed to prevent children from falling out of bed.These bed railsare intended for children who can get in and out of an adult bedunassisted(typically from 2 to 5 years of age).1.4 No bed rail as defined in 3.1.1 that is produced after theapproval date of this consumer safety specification shall,eitherby label or other means,indicate compliance with this speci-fication unless it conforms to all the requirements containedherein.1.5 This consumer safety specification includes the follow-ing sections:TitleSectionScope1Referenced Documents2Terminology3Calibration and Standardization4General Requirements5Performance Requirements6Structural Integrity6.1Openings6.2Enclosed Openings6.3Openings Created by Bed Rail Displacement of Adjacent StylePortable Bed Rails6.4Openings Created by Displacement of Mattress-Top PortableBed Rails6.5Openings Created by Displacement of Portable Bed RailsIntended for Use on Specific Manufacturers Beds6.6Protrusions6.7Openings Between Bedposts(Headboard,Footboards,Etc.)and Ends of Portable Bed Rail6.8Bedrail components requiring consumer assembly6.9Test Equipment7Test Beds7.1Torso Probe7.2Wedge Probe7.3Ring Gauge7.4Weight Gauge7.5Force Gauge7.6Test Methods81This consumer safety specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Commit-tee F15 on Consumer Products and is the direct responsibility of SubcommitteeF15.11 on Bed Rails.Current edition approved Jan.1,2012.Published January 2012.Originallyapproved in 2001.Last previous edition approved in 2010 as F2085 10a.DOI:10.1520/F2085-12.Copyright ASTM International,100 Barr Harbor Drive,PO Box C700,West Conshohocken,PA 19428-2959.United States1 Test Method for Structural Integrity8.1Test Method for Enclosed Openings Within Portable Bed Rail8.2Test Method for Displacement of Adjacent Style Portable BedRails8.3Test Method for Displacement of 9Mattress-Top9 Style PortableBed Rails8.4Test Method for Portable Bed Rails Intended for Use on aSpecific Manufacturers Bed8.5Test Method for Entanglement on Protrusions8.6Marking and Labeling9Permanency of Labels and Warnings10Instructional Literature11Keywords12RationaleAppendix X11.6 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regardedas standard.The values given in parentheses are mathematicalconversions to SI units that are provided for information onlyand are not considered standard.1.7 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to thetest methods portion in Section 8 of this specification.Thisstandard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns,if any,associated with its use.It is the responsibility of the userof this standard to establish appropriate safety and healthpractices and determine the applicability of regulatory require-ments prior to use.2.Referenced Documents2.1 ASTM Standards:2D3359 Test