Archive for the ‘WeMakeItSafer’ Category
New Buttons Make Product Recall Monitoring Even Simpler
We are happy to announce the addition of “I Own a Similar Item” buttons to the WeMakeItSafer site. You will find these buttons in our Recall Gallery, on Product Search results, and on our Recalled Product Detail pages. The purpose of the button is to give users another, quick way to add items they own [...]
Recalled Product IMAGE Widgets
It has been on our “to do” list for quite some time, so we are especially pleased to announce that we have completed several new widgets that anyone can easily grab and use for free. Each widget displays the latest CPSC recalls, including images! Because consumers are far more likely to recognize something they own [...]
Find the Latest Product Recalls in the Sidebar
We have added images of products recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to our News & Blog page. Just scroll down and you’ll find them in the right sidebar under “Latest Product Recalls.” Click any image to learn more about the recall. Recalled products are updated daily. If you would like to receive [...]
WeMakeItSafer Launches Private Beta
It all started with frustration, and the idea to make a change. Hundreds of millions of products discovered by manufacturers and government agencies to be dangerous remain in consumers’ homes, causing thousands of preventable injuries and deaths every year. It is an unacceptable problem to the founders of WeMakeItSafer, who set out two years ago [...]
WeMakeItSafer Releases Consumer Product Recall Statisitcs
Whether you are trying to assess recall risk, identify important market segments or calculating the impact of recalls on businesses, this data will be crucial to your successful navigation of the recall landscape.
Safety Matters Is Moving to WeMakeItSafer.com
For the past year I have been writing the Safety Matters blog for WeMakeItSafer, Inc., a company I founded to address problems with consumer product safety and recalls. The support has been tremendous – 10,000 readers have stopped by to gain information on product safety laws, recall news and safety tips. Now that WeMakeItSafer has [...]
CPSC Advice Not Practical, WeMakeItSafer Changes That
The CPSC continues to recommend that parents, childcare facility owners and school administrators check every belonging and new purchase on the CPSC website to make sure it has not been recalled. While we strongly support the idea of looking for recalls, using the government site to do so simply is not practical. Depending on the [...]
WeMakeItSafer is Prepared for New Tracking Label Laws
By the end of August, consumers should start to see some changes on the children’s products they buy. Products intended for children aged twelve and under that are manufactured on or after August 14, 2009 will be required to include permanent markings on both the packaging and the item itself. The markings will include information [...]
WeMakeItSafer Featured by Kids In Danger (KID)
WeMakeItSafer was recently featured in a Kids In Danger (KID) blog post. KID was formed by parents of Danny Keysar, a 16-month-old boy who died in a recalled travel yard. Neither parents nor caregivers at the childcare center where the crib was located knew about the recall. To date, 16 babies have died, yet the [...]
WeMakeItSafer.com is LIVE!
Tell all your friends – especially those with kids at home or those with senior family members living alone – to stop by http://WeMakeItSafer.com and peruse our simpler than ever recalled-product gallery to make sure there aren’t any items in their homes with safety defects. Unfortunately, nearly everyone owns dangerous, recalled products without knowing it.
And, don’t forget – never buy or sell another secondhand item without running a search at WeMakeItSafer first.
Where Have You Been?
Blog posts have be sparse over the last couple months, but for a very exciting reason – we have been working feverishly to get the WeMakeItSafer site up! I am very happy to announce that we are officially entering alpha mode this weekend. This is our testing phase, and it means launch is just around [...]
2009 Safety Matters Redesign – More Information, More Tools
While the impetus may have been the mysterious disappearance of my widgets, I decided it was time rethink how I could be providing more information to my readers. While I still have work to do on the design, I have started by splitting the page into three columns and adding new tools that I hope [...]
Safety Matters in the New Year
Happy New Year! I hope that everyone enjoyed time with their friends and family over the holiday season and trust that the New Year finds you well and ready to take on the new and growing challenges of our day. 2009 brings with it a long list of obstacles, but also an enormous opportunity for [...]
About the Author
Here’s where to find information about me, Jennifer P. Toney: Brief Bio: http://blog.wemakeitsafer.com/about.html About WeMakeItSafer: http://blog.wemakeitsafer.com/jennifer/wemakeitsafercom/ Profile on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jtoney Contact: Jennifer [at] WeMakeItSafer [dot] com
Laying the Foundation for a Product Information and Monitoring Company
While this blog is new, my interest in consumer product recalls and safety information is not. My first encounter with a product recall was in the mid 1990’s when, as a litigation consultant, I was assigned to a product recall case. My job was to calculate the cost of conducting the recall, from pulling the [...]
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