Evaluating consumer product hazards |
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| Authors: | Michael Stonebraker |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, California, USA |
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| Abstract: | A regression analysis is described which correlates the hazard level of a group of consumer products according to several definitions of hazard with potentially dangerous characteristics of products and their use. A surprisingly good fit to the data is observed and various observations are drawn from the analysis, among them that  open flames are characteristic of high injury potential, but flammability is not. Hypotheses and open questions concerning the human factors of product safety and government intervention in the marketplace as a regulator of product safety are discussed. |
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