Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Off to Rough Start
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...
View ArticleNHTSA’s Rulemaking Priorities to Include Ejection Mitigation and Seat Belts...
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...
View ArticleNHTSA Advances Two Mandates of the Gulbransen Safety Act
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 4, August / September 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Only power windows with express-up designs would have to be equipped with an auto-reverse feature, and...
View ArticleIIHS Rates Booster Seats; New Study Examines Effectiveness
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2009 ARLINGTON, VA — The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released its latest ratings for boosters, and out of 60 models gave 15...
View ArticleCPSC Gets Tough on Lead Paint Violators
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 1, April 2010 Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has leveled the second largest fine against a lead paint violator and...
View ArticleNTSB Top Ten Drops Occupant Protection in School Buses from Latest List
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 1, April 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eleven years after the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that the National Highway Traffic Safety...
View ArticleATVS and Kids: Searching for a Solution
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 3, November 2010 BOSTON, MASS – In September, Massachusetts passed the toughest ATV law in the nation, becoming the first state to ban All-Terrain...
View ArticleChild Safety in Real World Crashes: U.S. Standards Lag
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 2011 FMVSS 213 Child Restraint Systems is an inadequate standard with a compliance test that bears no resemblance to what happens to children...
View ArticleRulemaking Update
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 8, Issue 3, November 2011 New Child Dummies for Booster Seat Testing Offer Advancement – and Raise Significant Questions Acknowledging concerns about the...
View ArticleStudy Shows Seat Belt Misuse Among 4 to 9 Year Olds
Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 8, Issue 3, November 2011 A new study shows that many parents know that adult seat belts do not fit their older children properly, but use them anyway....
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