Intertek’s Gene Rider Chosen by ANSI to Help Revise Guidelines for Child Safety
13 Mar 2012
Oak Brook, IL– Gene Rider, president of Intertek Consumer Goods North America, has been chosen by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to serve as part of an ad hoc group of industry experts formed to revise ISO/IEC Guide 50, Safety aspects – Guidelines for child safety, published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
The ISO Technical Management Board (TMB) moved to initiate the revision at its September 2011 meeting. ANSI is a member of the ISO TMB, granting the organization the opportunity to name up to two experts to serve on the committee; Toy Industry Association (TIA) Senior Vice President of Technical Affairs Alan Kaufman was also selected to participate.
Mr. Rider has devoted his professional life to consumer goods risk analysis and design safety, particularly for children’s products. His work in this area was recently honored when he was chosen as an inaugural recipient of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman’s Commendation Circle Award, which recognizes people and groups who have demonstrated consistent and significant contributions to improving the safety of children’s and other consumer products and to the prevention of deaths and injuries associated with using such products.
ISO/IEC Guide 50, Safety aspects – Guidelines for child safety, provides a framework for addressing potential sources of unintentional hazards to which children might be exposed during their use of, or interaction with, a product, service or system. This includes information on the general approach to child safety, including specific developmental characteristics of children that place them at a particular risk of injury. The guide is primarily intended for those involved in the preparation and revision of standards that will be used by product designers, architects, manufacturers, service providers, communicators and policy makers in a way to minimize possible injury to children, and is designed to be used in conjunction with ISO/IEC Guide 51, Safety aspects — Guidelines for their inclusion in standards.
Revisions to ISO/IEC Guide 50 would update the current edition, which was published in 2002 by the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Advisory Group (JTAG) for Child Safety. ISO/IEC Guide 50 was originally published in 1987.
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