http://www.cpsc.gov/BUSINFO/testcribs.pdf

to make sure the slats held back enough weight before they broke or came out of their mortise, needless to say the cherry slats were much stronger than required. Since this was the first real piece of furniture I had designed and built myself, I knew there would be problems and I tried to make sure safety came first. I had not even imagined the issue with the corner post.

Man it would have been nice to be able to put my plans out on the site to get some constructive criticism prior to building it, I would have had a much superior product and maybe not overlooked the corner post issue.

Brian brings up a good point. I recently built a crib and spent a lot of time looking through the various safety guidelines. I would also check the spacing of your slats to make sure that they are within the 2 3/8″ specified by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The American Society for Testing and Materials recommends that corner posts should not extend more than 1/16″ unless they are high enough to be out of reach as in a canopy support. The CPSC refers to it in their Crib Safety guidelines: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5030.html

The following document contains more specific regulations and methods for testing: http://www.cpsc.gov/BUSINFO/regsumcrib.pdf

Thousands of cribs have been recalled in the past year as a result of various accidents or potentially dangerous situations. Many of those issues were related to faulty hardware or poor craftsmanship. Neither of these should be an issue for you since it’s obviously well-built and doesn’t include the lowering side rail hardware that seems to be prone to failure.