Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 WASHINGTON – When the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act was signed into law last August, proponents characterized it as the most significant upgrade to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s powers since the agency was established in 1972. But, according to a new report, [...]
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 REHOBOTH, MA – Safety Research & Strategies is better looking than ever. The company has launched an updated version of its website, with improved graphics, animation and video clips. We’ve also beefed up our content and added a search option.
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tire retailers are in the midst of an oh-my-gosh-the-sky-is-falling meltdown over a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tire maintenance public education program. Specifically, the retail arm of the tire industry is quivering over the possibility that groups outside of the industry [...]
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – After years of resisting, the National Highway Traffic Administration has published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend the rearview mirror standard to actually include a performance standard for the rear view. The agency also solicited public comment on the [...]
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 SACRAMENTO, CA – One of the nation’s first laws to require tire dealers to disclose the age of each tire prior to sale or installation cleared an important hurdle in late April, when the California state legislature’s Assembly Business and Professions committee passed it [...]
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 Juries in Georgia, Colorado and Texas recently delivered verdicts worth more than $46 million against Ford Motor Company and Nissan in three different defect cases. Ford lost in two separate cases involving an Explorer transmission defect and a seat-belt unlatch incident involving a Mercury [...]
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Not bad – considering. With a few variations, that’s largely the reaction to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s final roof crush rule published earlier this month. Nearly four years after deciding to amend the antiquated standard, after howls of protest [...]
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2009 ORLANDO, FLORIDA – Matthew Ranfone was only two years old when he slipped out of his Orlando home, into an enclosed patio area and through a pool fence into the backyard pool. His parents found him minutes later floating face down. Matthew died 13 [...]