The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was chartered to protect consumers from dangerous products through, among other things, product recalls. The commission measures the effectiveness of public notification methods through monthly progress reports. We discovered problems with the current monthly progress report through interviews with CPSC staff, industry, and law firms. Analysis of the Compliance recall database helped us determine, the validity of models to calculate effectiveness statistics. Our results give the CPSC valuable information to improve recall effectiveness.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Schwartz, Michael John
• Clark, Joshua Dylan
• Waldron, Isaac James
• Iadarola, Michael J.

Subject

• Well-Being
• Health
• Industry
• Security

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02B024I

Keyword

• Product safety

Advisor

• Vernon-Gerstenfeld, Susan
• Biederman, Ronald R.

Year

• 2002

Center

• Washington, DC Project Center - IQP

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Location

• Washington

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright