Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 3, June / July 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C.—NHTSA’s regulatory dance card is mighty full for the next five months, with a clutch of substantive rulemakings that includes developing a performance standard for full and partial ejection mitigation, restraints on motor coaches, boosters for older children and a rearward [...]

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 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 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 1, January/February 2009 Washington, D.C. – The Obama Administration has stuck a crowbar in the public information vault his predecessor was so skilled at keeping tightly closed and issued an Executive Order requiring the Attorney General to issue new FOIA guidelines to all department heads.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 1, January/February 2009 ATLANTA, GA – After a three-year effort involving the automotive industry, trauma specialists, NHTSA and other federal agencies, the Centers for Disease Control last month issued its first national triage guidelines – and dropped rollover from the criteria of automatic transport to a Level [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 1, January/February 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s effort to write a new roof strength standard drags into its fourth year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has gone ahead and created one that is far more stringent than anything the agency [...]