1. Scope
1. Scope
1.1 This consumer safety specification covers the performance requirements and test methods to ensure the safety of chests.
1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize the accidents and injuries to children resulting from normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of these chests.
1.3 For the purposes of this consumer safety specification, these requirements apply to products known as cedar or clothes chests or boxes that are designed and marketed as storage containers for clothes, blankets, or linens. The products subject to the requirements are those with a volume of 1.1 ft3 (0.031 m3) or more.
This consumer safety specification addresses chest accidents that have been identified by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
This consumer safety specification attempts to minimize the following: (1) possible entrapment and strangulation hazards associated with sudden lid closing or dropping; (2) possible crushing, pinching, and laceration hazards associated with folding mechanisms, hinges, and lid supports; and (3) possible suffocation hazards as a result of lack of adequate ventilation.
Keywords
chests, cedar, clothes, safety
The title and scope are in draft form and are under development within this ASTM Committee.
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