ASTM F3186-24

Annotation of standard text ASTM F3186-24 :

This safety specification establishes the performance requirements for adult portable bed rails, related products, and adult portable bedrail accessories, including requirements for resistance to entrapment, marking and adhered labels, instructional literature, and advertising. It is intended to minimize entrapment and strangulation hazards that are attributed to design components, whether these hazards arise from normal installation and use, reasonably foreseeable mis-installation/misuse, or changes to the stability of the attachment over time, or combinations thereof. This specification applies to adult portable bed rails that meet the definition of a medical device and are therefore under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and to adult portable bed rails that are not medical devices, and which therefore fall under the jurisdiction of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).


Keywords:
adult bed rails, bed rail entrapment, portable bed rails,, ICS Number Code 97.180 (Miscellaneous domestic and commercial equipment)