Veteran safety researcher Susan Longacre, formerly of Longacre & Associates, Inc., has joined Safety Research & Strategies as a Senior Researcher. Longacre, of Annapolis, Maryland, headed her own technical safety research company for 27 years before becoming the newest member of the SRS team. Like SRS, Longacre & Associates, Inc. offered services to attorneys, engineers, [...]

The tone was less adversarial and more collegial as the U.S. Product Safety Commission held its first public workshop (see The End of the World as We Know it!) on the establishment of a Public Consumer Product Safety Incident Database this week. Perhaps that was because the Commissioners did not attend – nor did some [...]

The very best consumer products complaints database would be one which allows manufacturers to thoroughly vet each complaint – no matter how many years it takes; one that would be accessible to the public, unless that member of the public is a plaintiff’s attorney or a reporter; or one that prohibits complaints that might tarnish [...]

ORLANDO, FLORIDA – Matthew Ranfone was only two years old when he slipped out of his Orlando home, into an enclosed patio area and through a pool fence into the backyard pool. His parents found him minutes later floating face down. Matthew died 13 days later from the injuries sustained in the near drowning. It’s [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, V6, I1 VINALHAVEN, ME – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has opened a probe in December 2008 into the strangulation death of a two-year-old who became entangled in the mesh netting of his crib tent. Noah Thompson of Harvard, Mass., was strangled when his head got stuck between the [...]