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Stroller Recall Fact Sheet & PSA to Share
Want to Help? Share this PSA. And don’t forget to check your own stroller. See all the latest stroller recalls here. Stroller Recall Fact Sheet Over the 5-year period from 2007 – 2011: 22 Stroller Recalls were announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). 5.5 million Strollers (aka “units”) were included in those stroller recalls. [...]
Guidelines for Healthy Eating during Pregnancy
Editor’s Note: Thanks goes to Renee Leonard-Stainton, the creator and editor of Renee Naturally, for this helpful guest post on what to eat & what to avoid during pregnancy. In addition to her informative blog, you can find Renee on twitter @ReneeNaturally. * * * The miraculous concept of creating another human life takes some careful [...]
Making the World a Safer Place across the Web
We would like to take a moment to thank some of the many, many wonderful websites and blogs that have added new features to help keep you and your family safe and informed about recalled products. In most cases, recalled products have a simple fix, yet doing nothing can have devastating consequences. Even so, 80% [...]
Is My “Green” Cleaner Really Safe?
While natural, homemade cleaners using ingredients such as water, lemon, vinegar and baking soda are the healthiest way to go, most of us rely on ready-made purchased cleaners at least some of the time. How do you know if the cleaner you purchased with good intentions is really safe for you and the environment? Sure, [...]
Making Safety Fun… and Colorful!
WeMakeItSafer was founded on the principle that, if we work together, we can make the world a safer place. We spend a lot of time educating parents about safety issues, especially the dangers of recalled products and the importance of registering belongings for safety alerts. Every day, we remember the children who were injured or [...]
Register Your Baby Products to Keep on Top of Recalls
Last week, Encore Baby Registry posted a fabulous article on their blog about the importance of checking for recalls. Rather than just tell readers to register, Encore gave specific examples of some of the problems that registering products solves. We have posted the first portion of their article here, with permission, and encourage you to [...]
WeMakeItSafer Gets Creative on Pinterest
We are happy to announce that you can now follow WeMakeItSafer on Pinterest! So how does an organization all about safety and recalled products live in the land of beauty, fashion, and stuff we love? It gets creative. At WeMakeItSafer, we think safety is a beautiful thing. Our challenge was making our “safety pins” look beautiful [...]
Crib Recall Fact Sheet & PSA to Share
Want to Help? Share this PSA. And don’t forget to check your own crib. See all the latest crib recalls here. Crib Recall Fact Sheet Over the 5-year period from 2007 – 2011: 57 Crib Recalls were announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). 9.9 million Cribs (aka “units”) were included in those recalls. [...]
How to Select the Right Child Proof Gate
Editor’s Note: Thanks goes to Michele Spahr, the founder of Safe Start Baby, for this helpful guest post on choosing the right baby gates and installing them properly. In addition to her informative (and sometimes just plain hilarious) blog, you can find Michele on twitter @TheSafetyFreak. * * * Never underestimate your busy crawling baby. One minute [...]
KinderCycle, Save Money and Protect the Environment while Helping Others
When I first heard about KinderCycle, I fell in love with the idea. In a nutshell, KinderCycle is an organized swap of kids’ toys, books, gear, and clothing. You bring the items your child no longer needs and pick up a few things he or she does need. Brilliant, right? What better way to keep [...]
WeMakeItSafer Makes ‘Recalled Product Search’ Available to Bloggers and Websites
Any website or blog can now add a high-tech Product Recall Finder for free, without any coding. Oakland, CA (PRWEB) February 28, 2012 Those who have visited WeMakeItSafer.com have undoubtedly used their Recalled Product Search tool. It is a favorite among users and, WeMakeItSafer says, since its public launch last year, hundreds-of-thousands of visitors have used [...]
Please Meet our Advisors, The Safety Brigade
WeMakeItSafer is, and always has been, a community effort. From day one, it has been our core belief that the problems surrounding product safety will best be solved when all of the stakeholders work together. The “we” in WeMakeItSafer does not refer to a company; it refers to all of us. “Together, we can make [...]
WeMakeItSafer to be Technology Voice at ICPHSO Symposium
As a high tech company WeMakeItSafer is focused on building robust, intelligent tools to solve problems, specifically problems related to product safety and recall effectiveness. It was the unnecessary, completely preventable injuries and deaths associated with consumers continuing to use recalled products that led Jennifer and Priyanka to attack this problem in the first place. [...]
The WINNER of our Cute Kids & Safety Tips Contest is….
We do a lot of really hard stuff at WeMakeItSafer – statistical analysis, computer programming, writing algorithms and proofs – but I think we all agree that our hardest task yet was choosing the winner of our Cute Kids & Safety Tips Contest. We received DOZENS of entries, many of which you saw on our [...]
Do Your Purchases Meet Your Social, Environmental & Safety Standards?
If you are like me, you have, on more than one occasion, picked up a product in your home and thought, “What’s in this thing anyway?” Or, “Who made this? Were the workers treated fairly?” Animal lovers may also ask, “How was this product tested?” A new tool by GoodGuide called “Purchase Analyzer” helps answer [...]
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