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Underwriters Laboratories Inc.‘s Experience with Consumer Participation in Television Safety Standard Development
Author(s) -
HOFFMAN S. DAVID
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1978.tb00895.x
Subject(s) - underwriting , commission , product (mathematics) , consumer protection , consumer safety , business , consumer protection act , representation (politics) , advertising , marketing , actuarial science , political science , law , finance , risk analysis (engineering) , commerce , geometry , mathematics , politics
One of the obligations of offerors in the preparation of proposed standards for the Consumer Product Safety Commission is to include consumer representatives on the standards‐writing committee. This report describes Underwriters Laboratories Inc.'s problems in identifying consumer representatives and its experience with consumer representation on the committee preparing a proposed television receiver safety standard.