Ann Brown calls on CPSC Chair to examine her Top Ten List.Former CPSC CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission (US) CPSC Computer Science (course) CPSC Canadian Plastics Sector Council (Ottawa, ON, Canada) CPSC Chemical Processing Safety Committee Chair Ann Brown Ann Leslie Brown (1943-1999) was an educational psychologist who developed methods for teaching children to be better learners. Her realization that children's learning difficulties often stem from an inability to use metacognitive strategies such as summarizing led to profound has issued a challenge to the newly confirmed CPSC Chairman by issuing a Top Ten Safety List. She issued the list on behalf of her nonprofit group, SAFE (Safer America for Everyone). (14) Brown says she isn't trying to tell the Commission what to do, but that she believes these are things that must be done in the interest of consumer safety. Brown's list includes: * A standard requiring a product registration safety card * An upholstered furniture flammability flam·ma·ble adj. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; inflammable. [From Latin flamm standard * A new standard for baby bath seats * A new federal standard for clothes dryers * A new mandatory standard for portable bed rails * A mandatory standard for gunlocks * A recall of certain Daisy BB guns * A mandatory standard to reduce fires caused by electric ranges * A mandatory "fire-safe" cigarette standard * A ban on the use of arsenic arsenic (är`sənĭk), a semimetallic chemical element; symbol As; at. no. 33; at. wt. 74.9216; m.p. 817°C; (at 28 atmospheres pressure); sublimation point 613°C;; sp. gr. (stable form) 5.73; valence −3, 0, +3, or +5. in pressure treated wood treated wood Toxicology Wood impregnated with preservatives–eg, chromium-copper-arsenate, creosote, inorganic arsenicals, pentachlorophenol, to ↑ its useful life, thwarting insects, fungi, etc; chronic exposure to the fumes of burning wood or skin used in playground equipment. It is interesting to note that Brown did not include one voluntary industry action in her list. (14) From the web site of Safer America for Everyone (SAFE) www.saferam.org. |
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