The Purposes of the Consumer Safety Act

The contributions of Ralph Nader should be stated in a historical perspective and the four basic purposes of the act should be clarified; namely:

To protect the public from the risk of injuries incurred while using consumer products
To help consumers make objective evaluations of the risks associated with using consumer products
To encourage uniformity in standards and regulations and to minimize conflicts among regulations at the various levels of government
To encourage research into the causes of product-related injuries, health problems, and deaths and how these things can be prevented

Your report can include pictures, figures and tables. It should be between 2000 words and include at least 8 references (at least 4 articles).

This is for a Safety Engineering course within an Industrial Engineering program.

Referencing should be in APA style.

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The United States government’s first significant efforts that were widely recognized regarding consumer product safety were in 1972 when it passed the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) and also created a commission for the same. The CPSA thus is an umbrella statute for CPSC which is the corresponding commission mandated with overseeing the safety of products for the safety of consumers. The commission, therefore, is mandated to develop standards and bans and also order recalls for products and also ban others under certain circumstances. The act, therefore, plays a crucial role of regulating manufacturers and designers to consider the safety of the consumers of products and the general public and thus make informed choices in the design and manufacture of products…….

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