Posts Tagged ‘Safety’
Off-Road Vehicles in the Spotlight
With all the attention on toys, Toyotas and Tylenol, you might be surprised to learn that some of the most dangerous and commonly recalled products are in the Mortorsport and Utility Vehicles category. In fact, in 2009 alone, recalled products in this category caused nearly 50 deaths , more than any other recalled product type. [...]
Safety To-Do #4: Make Your Stairways Safer
Overall, from 2000 to 2005, Americans are estimated to have visited emergency rooms for fall-related injuries more than 39.7 million times, almost 8 million times per year, on average. Cross-referencing that data with statistics from National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) reveals that approximately 14%, or 5.5 million, of those falls are attributed to stairs, more than 1 million per year.
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 [...]
Calendar of CPSIA Deadlines and Other Consumer Product Safety Dates
On the calendar below, I have listed upcoming Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA of 2008) deadlines and effective dates for various regulations. If you find any errors or omissions, please email me right away. As I become aware of them, I will also include dates for relevant events such conferences, speaker series, Consumer Product [...]
Halloween is Here… and with it Come More Halloween Recalls
Considering that most product defects that result in recalls are discovered through customer use, it is no surprise that Halloween related product recalls begin to show up immediately before the big day and continue for a few months after, as we are playing with our toys and prizes. If you read my last post, where [...]
Halloween Related Product Recalls – Make Sure Your Decor and Costumes Are Safe
If your family is anything like ours, Halloween decorations and other paraphernalia get packed back into boxes or bins and pushed to the depths of the garage within a day or two after the trick-or-treating comes to an end. The plastic witches and candy-collection pails then stay in their out-of-sight–out-of-mind state until, well, now – [...]
Batteries to Blame in RC Helicopter Fires
On Wednesday (09/10/08), yet another remote controlled toy helicopter was recalled – the eighth one this year and the ninth associated with fire and burn hazards since 2006. The culprit in nearly every case? Rechargeable Lithium batteries and/or their chargers.
Importance of Bicycle Helmets Hits Home
My 8-year-old son, Sam, crashed on his bike last week. Unable to break while going down a hill, he went through an intersection (thankfully, no cars were coming) and hit the curb on the other side. His bike flew to the right; he went to the left, sliding across the sidewalk into a hedge. Although [...]
The Effect of Product Recalls on Stock Performance (Full Post)
A 2005 statistical study published in the Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics analyzed the security prices of non-automotive recalls following the announcement of the product recall in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).[1] [2] The study looked at a sample of 269 product recalls from 1984 through 2003 and reported the mean abnormal returns (MAR) [...]
WeMakeItSafer Home
