Scope
1.1 This consumer safety specification establishes general requirements and requirements for labeling the unit, the retail package, and instructional literature.
1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize incidents to children resulting from normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse of portable bed rails.
1.3 For the purpose of this consumer safety specification, a bed rail is a portable bed rail intended to be installed on an adult bed to prevent children from falling out of bed. These bed rails are intended for children who can get in and out of an adult bed unassisted (typically from 2 to 5 years of age.)
1.4 No bed rail as defined in 3.1.2 that is produced after the approval date of this consumer safety specification shall, either by label or other means, indicate compliance with this specification unless it conforms to all the requirements contained herein.
