Examining Pool Safety Issues: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Product Safety, and Insurance of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, May 3, 2006 |
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Page 4 - Commission is an independent agency charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.
Page 53 - Council of American Building Officials (CABO) One and Two Family Dwelling Code or the latest edition.
Page 47 - If there are no further questions, I want to thank all of your distinguished witnesses this morning. You have been most helpful to the committee. We appreciate your appearance here today. Mrs.
Page 48 - The hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 4:40 pm, the hearing was adjourned.] ADDITIONAL ARTICLES, LETTERS, AND STATEMENTS STATEMENT OF HON. RICHARD H. BRYAN, GOVERNOR, STATE OP NEVADA AND CHAIRMAN OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOURISM, NATIONAL GOVERNORS...
Page 27 - KIDS has relied on developing injury prevention strategies that work in the real world — conducting public outreach and awareness campaigns, organizing and implementing hands-on grassroots activity, and working to make injury prevention a public policy priority. The on-going work of SAFE KIDS coalitions reaching out to local communities with injury prevention messages has...
Page 15 - ... report. I do hope, however, that I have been able to convey to you the importance of your demanding good scientific research as a preliminary to decisionmaking in this area. In closing, may I say that I have been, for many years, a great admirer of Jesse Steinfeld, MD, the present Surgeon General. I know him personally: I served with him some years ago on the special grants committee of...
Page 29 - Clear danger: A national study of childhood drowning and related attitudes and behaviors.
Page 28 - Typical medical costs for a near-drowning victim can range from $75,000 for initial treatment to $180,000 a year for long-term care.
Page 33 - Installation and proper use of four-sided isolation fencing could prevent 50 to 90 percent of childhood residential swimming pool drownings and neardrownings.
Page 28 - Studies show that installation and proper use of four-sided isolation fencing could prevent 50 to 90 percent of residential pool drowning and neardrowning incidents among children.