ASTM F3084-14

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Designation:F3084 −14
StandardConsumer Safety Specification for
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Infant and Infant/Toddler Rockers
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F3084; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize the risk of injury or death associated
with a child’s use of an infant or infant/toddler rocker. The specific hazards addressed by this
specification are product disassembly/collapse, stability, and falls from elevated surfaces.
1. Scope 1.5 No rocker produced after the approval date of this
consumer safety specification shall, either by label or other
1.1 This consumer safety specification covers establishment
means, indicate compliance with this specification unless it
of requirements, test methods, and marking requirements to
conforms to all requirements contained herein.
promote safe use of the rocker by an occupant and a caregiver.
1.6 This consumer safety specification is not intended to
1.2 For purposes of this consumer safety specification, an
address incidents and injuries resulting from the interaction of
infant rocker or infant/toddler rocker is a freestanding product
other persons with the occupant in the product or the incidents
intended to support an occupant in a seated, reclined position
resulting from abuse or misuse by other children.
and to facilitate rocking by the occupant with the aid of a
1.7 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded
caregiver or by other means. Intended occupants for infant
as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical
rockers are infants who have not developed the ability to sit up
conversions to SI units that are provided for information only
unassisted (approximately 0 to 6 months of age), and infant/
and are not considered standard.
toddler rockers have an extended use with occupants until
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toddler age (approximately 2 ⁄2 years of age). Both infant and 1.8 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the
infant/toddler rockers include a restraint system. test method portion, Section 7, of this consumer safety speci-
fication: This standard does not purport to address all of the
1.3 This specification does not cover positions or modes on
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
products that recline to 10° or less above the horizontal or are
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
intended primarily for sleeping. If the rocker can be converted
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
into a product for which an ASTM standard consumer safety
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
specification exists, the product shall meet the applicable
requirements of that standard. For example, a rocker that
2. Referenced Documents
converts to a bassinet shall also comply with the applicable
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2.1 ASTM Standards:
requirements of Consumer Safety Specification F2194 when in
D3359 Test Methods for Measuring Adhesion by Tape Test
a bassinet mode. This specification does not cover rockers
F963 Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety
intended for toddler only use without a restraint system,
F2050 Consumer Safety Specification for Hand-Held Infant
hand-held infant carriers or inclined sleep products that have
Carriers
the ability to rock or have a rocking mode.
F2167 Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Bouncer
1.4 This consumer safety specification is intended to mini- Seats
mize the risk of injury to an occupant resulting from normal
F2194 Consumer Safety Specification for Bassinets and
use and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of an infant or Cradles
infant/toddler rocker.
2.2 EN Standards:
EN12790:2009 Child use and care articles—Reclined
cradles
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This consumer safety specification is under the jurisdiction ofASTM Commit-
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tee F15 on Consumer Products and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or
F15.18onCribs,ToddlerBeds,PlayYards,Bassinets,CradlesandChangingTables. contact ASTM Customer Service at service@astm.org. For Annual Book of ASTM
Current edition approved May 1, 2014. Published July 2014. DOI: 10.1520/ Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
F3084-14. the ASTM website.
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2.3 Federal Regulations:
16 CFR 1303 Ban of Lead-Containing Paint and Certain
Consumer Products Bearing Lead-Containing Pai
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