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Online: Investigate Product Safety on the Web
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. It works to ensure the safety of consumer products ' such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals, and claims it has contributed significantly to the 30% decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years. The site, www.cpsc.gov, offers information (in English and Spanish) that could help protect consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard, or can injure children.
The home page provides links to several topics, including: Recalls and Product Safety News; Neighborhood Safety Network Signup; Report an Unsafe Product (Report an incident with a product that caused an injury; Medical Professionals and Fire/Police Investigators: file MECAP, incident reports); Voluntary Standards/Research Reports; Sign Up for E-mail Announcements; and view and order CPSC Publications on a wide variety of consumer safety issues.
The list of recent recalls included children's outerwear, tower heaters, smokers, leaf blowers, routers, safety kits, and baseball gloves. 'CPSC's Most Wanted' were window blinds, Lane cedar chests, old cribs, and cadet heaters. Window blinds have been recalled because children can strangle in the cords. In 1994, CPSC worked with the window covering industry to redesign new window blinds to eliminate the outer loop on the end of the pull cords and provide free repair kits so consumers could fix their existing blinds. Window blinds sold since 1995 no longer have pull cords ending in loops. The link tells consumers how to get more information and send for a free kit to fix the blinds. Certain Lane cedar chests manufactured before 1987 were recalled due to a lock design that resulted in the suffocation of six children. The company redesigned its lock after 1987. The link to Old Cribs describes how to check for a safe crib.
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