It’s August! Do you know what that means? BACK-TO-SCHOOL!
While you’re scrambling to pull together fall clothes and school supplies, and sort through your transportation options, be sure to keep a few safety tips in mind:
1. Many schools are now joining the First Lady’s
Let’s Move Initiative
and/or the
Safe Routes program
to encourage walking or biking to school. Whether you’re part of one of these movements or your child already rides a bike or scooter to school, be sure (…)
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Aug 22
Inside the Lab: The Grand Opening
by CPSC Blogger CPSC lab; testing lab marcuccio safety science Tenenbaum van hollenOn Monday, June 13, 2011, CPSC opened a new state-of-the-art National Product Testing and Evaluation Center. The new lab has 2 ½ times more testing space than CPSC’s old facility, which was a former military missile site that CPSC first occupied in 1975. Here are some photos from the grand opening.
CPSC Laboratory Grand Opening
CPSC scientists and staff await the grand opening ceremony.
CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum welcomes Sen. Durbin aide Diana Hamilton, Rep. Chris (…)
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Jun 24
Sparklers burn at 2000 degrees F or even hotter.
That’s as hot as a blow torch.
It’s as hot as the charcoal fire in a grill.
2000 degrees is so hot it can melt copper.
Fireworks commonly known as bottle rockets, meanwhile, can fly through the air at 7 to 10 feet per second. Larger stick rockets are powerful projectiles with uncertain flight paths.
How fast are bottle and stick rockets? They fly erratically enough and are fast enough to hit someone by surprise and hurt them.
Fireworks (…)
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Jun 22
3-Year-Old’s Death Prompts Big Lots Futon Bunk Bed Recall
by CPSC Blogger bed bunk bed children death futon recallIf you bought a metal futon bunk bed at Big Lots between January 2009 and April 2010, listen up.
This bunk bed has been recalled:
A 3-year-old Burlington, Iowa, boy was behind the futon when the futon was lowered from the seated position to the flat position. The boy was trapped at the head and neck. The weight of the futon’s metal frame prevented him from breathing and escaping. Sadly, he died.
In addition to the hazard that this boy experienced – called an entrapment hazard – (…)
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Jun 16