Safety standards

Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. China has recently experienced trouble with some of the post listed associations.

Safety organizations

• Consumer Product Safety Commission kcmusa* Environmental Protection Agency or EPA (USA)
• Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile or FIA (France)
• Food and Drug Administration or FDA (USA)
• Health and Safety Executive (UK)
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (USA)
• National Public Safety C or NTSB (USA)
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (USA)
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (UK)
• European Aviation Safety Agency or EASA (Europe)
• Trading Standards Services (UK)

Acts

• Canada Consumer Product Safety Act

See also

• Consumer protection
• Bicycle safety
• China compulsory certification
• Injury prevention
• Public administration
• Road safety
• Standards organization
• Testing organizations
  • Baseefa (UK)
  • Canadian Standards Association (Canada)
  • Technischer Überwachungsverein (Germany, UK, China & USA)
  • Underwriters Laboratories (USA)
• Toy safety
• Safety by design