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George Max entered:
Reposting a message I found in ABPW:
(FWIW)
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:47:54 -0500, 25th Century Quaker
wrote:
Safety Innovator and SawStop Founder Stephen Gass to Meet With CPSC
Head; Open Meeting Held to Discuss Proposed New Safety Rule
9/5/2006 10:23:00 AM
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=71705
To: National Desk
Contact: Joe Householder, 713-301-0733, or
, for SawStop
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Wednesday, Sept. 6, Acting
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chair Nancy Nord will hold
an open meeting with SawStop founder Stephen Gass to discuss a
proposed new safety rule that could save the American economy
billions of dollars each year and prevent thousands of workplace and
home injuries. Gass is the inventor of the SawStop technology, which
drastically reduces the risk of injury in the use of table saws.
According to the CPSC, there are 55,000 table saw injuries each year
with an estimated cost to society of $2 billion. Many of those
injuries occur when an operator's fingers or hand comes into contact
with the rapidly spinning table saw blade. These injuries are often
devastating, ruining careers, putting families into emotional and
financial turmoil and disrupting businesses.
"So many of those injuries can be prevented," said Gass. The proven
SawStop technology stops a table saw blade within milliseconds after
it comes into contact with human skin, in most cases resulting in a
small nick, rather than an amputation.
Presently, CPSC staff is developing an Advanced Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking which, if it ultimately becomes an official rule, will
require all table saw manufacturers to ensure that blade contact
injuries result in a minor injury.
"The proposed rule under consideration by the CPSC would prevent
thousands of life-altering table saw injuries each year," said Gass.
"It would preserve jobs, reduce costs to employers, cut worker
compensation claims and ensure that families don't suffer the
emotional and financial devastation that these injuries cause."
The meeting, which is open to the public and the news media, will be
at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 6. It will be held in the hearing room
at CPSC Headquarters, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, Md., 20814
For more information about SawStop and this innovative technology,
visit its Web page at http://www.sawstop.com.
After reading the other responses, I think this is actually good news and
let me explain. First of all this is not going to lead to SawStop being
mandated. It may lead to more tablesaw safety which is a good thing for all
of us.
This was an open meeting. Do you think that saw and other safety equipment
manufacturers. weren't there? Do you think that someone else may be working
on another method to prevent table saw injuries? None of this is occuring in
a vacumm and in the long run will save all of us money.
For every worker that gets injured there is a very real possibility that the
cost of insurance will increase. This will be passed down to the consumer
as higher prices of course. As insurance prices go up, some Mfrs will have
to close their doors. More likely ship their manufacturing overseas. More
unemployment, another ding in your paycheck.
Remember the poor guy who got cut? Could be that he's hurt bad enough that
when his disability runs out, he's going on Social Security Disability.
Guess who pays for that.
Oh, don't forget the food stamps.
Now for all you young people who weren't around in the early 60's, nothing
that has been said about the government forcing something down your throat
wasn't said back then about seatbelts. At the time, seatbelts were adding
about $50.00 to the cost of the car. Go to the NTSB site and look up how
many lives seatbelts have saved.
Bob
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