The entrapment rule that defines the product
- Openings in the guardrails, end structures, and between the bed base and frame must pass the measurement requirements — head and neck entrapment is the hazard being engineered out.
- Associated ladder and guardrail design requirements, plus labeling.
Certification
Children’s bunk beds are children’s products: third-party testing, a CPC citing the entrapment standard, tracking labels, and registration-card duties for durable products. Adult-labeled bunk beds skip the CPC but keep the entrapment requirements — the geometry rules do not care about marketing.
Questions people ask
Do loft beds need the same tests?
Elevated lofts are evaluated against the same entrapment geometry where children sleep or play above the floor. Classify with your laboratory — marketing a loft “for kids” makes it a children’s product.
What fails testing most?
Guardrail-to-frame gaps and ladder rung spacing. Fix the geometry before booking the lab — entrapment failures are the standard’s whole point.
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