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cpsc-os@cpsc.gov; telephone: (301) 504– 

7923; facsimile: (301) 504–0127. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The CPSC collects and analyzes data 

on consumer-product related injuries 

and deaths, from products under CPSC’s 

jurisdiction, to identify consumer 

product-related hazards for agency 

action. A large portion of CPSC’s injury 

information is collected through CPSC’s 

National Electronic Injury Surveillance 

System (‘‘NEISS’’). NEISS is comprised 

of information coded from hospital 

emergency department records from a 

sample of hospitals in the United States. 

Because the member hospitals are part 

of a statistical sample, the 400,000 

product-related injury reports submitted 

each year, along with an additional 

350,000 non-CPSC injury reports used 

by other federal agencies, can be 

projected nationally. Although detailed 

product information or manufacturer 

names often are not available, NEISS 

does support special studies of selected 

product or hazard scenarios. NEISS data 

allow assessment of injury trends across 

time and provide information, such as 

age, gender, body part injured, and 

diagnosis, about those injured. NEISS 

data are available to the public for 

analysis. Although NEISS data are not a 

source of product related fatalities or 

non-emergency department treated 

injuries, their timely collection does 

afford CPSC staff an insight to potential 

product-related emerging hazards. 

NEISS data are supplemented by 

reports collected through other 

channels, such as saferproducts.gov and 

the CPSC Hotline. CPSC staff reviews 

consumer-product related deaths, 

injuries and near-misses (events that did 

not result in an injury but had the 

potential to do so) by collecting and 

processing more than 40,000 anecdotal 

incident reports annually. Incident 

report sources include consumers, 

medical examiners, coroners, death 

certificates, health care professionals, 

state and federal government agencies, 

manufacturers, retailers, and news clips. 

These incident reports inform the work 

of CPSC staff to identify and reduce 

unreasonable consumer product-related 

risks. 

The form and information content of 

incident reports vary across sources. 

News clips report more severe incidents 

such as carbon monoxide poisonings 

from generators and consumer productrelated children’s fatalities. The 6,000 

clips are timely and are a valuable 

source of information that consumers or 

health officials may not report. The 

5,000 reports that CPSC purchases from 

coroners and medical examiners 

provide information about an array of 

fatal events, including those associated 

with off-road vehicles, furniture tipovers, and product ingestions. Reports 

from death certificates purchased from 

state vital records departments provide 

similar information but there can be a 

time lag in the submission of these 

reports to CPSC. 

Good decision making requires highquality data. The reports of greatest 

value to CPSC staff for identifying 

potential emerging hazards and 

informing risk mitigation decisions 

include information about the victim 

(e.g. name, age, gender, address) or 

submitter (e.g. name, address) that 

would allow CPSC investigators to make 

contact for further investigation. These 

reports should also describe the 

incident scenario or hazard pattern that 

makes it apparent why there would be 

a risk of harm, describe the severity of 

any injuries that occurred and the date 

of the incident, and include a 

description of the product, including 

the manufacturer and model. 

II. The Hearing 

Through this notice, the Commission 

invites the public to provide 

information on how other organizations, 

domestic and international, use the data 

and information collected by CPSC and 

how the CPSC might enhance the 

quality, accessibility, utility, and 

usability of its data and information. 

The Commission also invites the 

public to provide information on other 

sources of consumer product-related 

injury and fatality information that 

contain the information associated with 

high-quality data. The most helpful 

input will include a discussion of the 

source’s data quality, format, and 

information content and how the source 

might advance CPSC staff’s work to 

maximize the quality and information 

content of incident reports available to 

inform the agency’s hazard 

identification, risk mitigation, and 

regulatory enforcement work. 

The Commission also invites the 

public to provide information regarding 

industry or other best practices and 

other successful substantive and 

technological approaches including but 

not limited to data collection, data 

processing, and data format. 

In discussing the CPSC’s data, 

presenters should recognize that the 

CPSC is faced with the challenge of 

distinguishing consumer productrelated incidents that pose a risk of 

harm or potential risk of harm from 

those that do not meet customer 

expectations. This challenge informs the 

CPSC’s approach to its data and many 

of the complexities associated with it. 

Requests to make oral presentations 

and texts of oral presentations should be 

captioned ‘‘Data Sources and Consumer 

Product-Related Incident Information’’ 

and sent by electronic mail (email) to: 

cpsc-os@cpsc.gov, or mailed or 

delivered to the Office of the Secretary, 

U.S. Consumer Product Safety 

Commission, 4330 East-West Highway, 

Room 820, Bethesda, MD 20814; 

telephone (301) 504–7923; facsimile 

(301) 504–0127. Requests to make oral 

presentations and texts of oral 

presentations must be received no later 

than 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) 

on June 17, 2015. All submissions 

received may be posted without change, 

including any personal identifiers, 

contact information, or other personal 

information. Presentations will be 

limited to approximately 10 minutes. 

The Commission reserves the right to 

impose further time limitations on all 

presentations and further restrictions to 

avoid duplication of presentations. 

Dated: May 20, 2015. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

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Announcement of Consumer Product 

Safety Commission’s Participation in 

2015 Healthy Aging Summit 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission (‘‘CPSC,’’ 

‘‘Commission,’’ or ‘‘we’’) is announcing 

its intent to participate in the 2015 

Healthy Aging Summit (‘‘Summit’’), 

sponsored by the Department of Health 

and Human Services, Office of Disease 

Prevention and Health Promotion 

(‘‘HHS/ODPHP’’) and the American 

College of Preventative Medicine 

(‘‘ACPM’’). The Summit will 

specifically highlight the science of 

healthy aging and preventive services 

and identify policy gaps that can be 

pursued to improve the quality of life 

for older adults. CPSC’s focus in the 

Summit will be to solicit information on 

better ways that the CPSC and other 

stakeholders, including state and local 

governments and non-governmental 

organizations, can protect the senior 

population from consumer products that 

pose risks. The Summit will be held at 

the Omni Shoreham Hotel in 

Washington, DC, on July 27–28, 2015. 

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We invite interested parties to 

participate in or attend the Summit. 

Interested parties are invited to submit 

written comments to the CPSC related to 

the Summit. The comments submitted 

in writing can be in lieu of, or in 

addition to, participating in person at 

the Summit. 

DATES: The Summit will be held from 

7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on July 27, 2015, 

and from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on July 

28, 2015. The CPSC session titled, 

‘‘Consumer Product Safety Listening 

Session,’’ will take place on July 27, 

2015, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. 

Individuals who wish to attend the 

Summit should register by July 13, 

2015; on-site registration will be offered, 

but at a higher cost, on the day of the 

Summit. Any written comments should 

be submitted to the CPSC by July 27, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: The Summit will be held at 

the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20008 on 

July 27–28, 2015. To attend the 

conference and provide oral comments 

during the CPSC Listening Session on 

July 27 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., you 

must register for the 2015 Healthy Aging 

Summit at 

www.2015healthyagingsummit.org. 

Time will be limited to three (3) 

minutes per commenter, subject to one 

hour time frame of the CPSC Listening 

Session. The ability to provide oral 

comments is on a first-come, first-served 

basis. 

For any parties who wish to submit 

written comments, written submissions 

can be made to the CPSC in the 

following way: 

Mail/Hand delivery/Courier to: Office 

of the Secretary, Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, Room 820, 4330 

East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 

20814; telephone (301) 504–7923; Email 

to: cpsc-os@cpsc.gov. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include: the ‘‘Consumer Product 

Safety Commission’’ and title, ‘‘2015 

Healthy Aging Summit.’’ All comments 

received may be posted without change, 

including any personal identifiers, 

contact information, or other personal 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patricia Adair, Directorate for 

Engineering Sciences, 5 Research Place, 

Rockville, MD 20850, telephone 301– 

987–2238, email seniorsummit@

cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

In establishing and revising its 

priorities, the Commission takes into 

consideration the vulnerability of the 

population at risk including risks to 

children, the elderly, and the 

handicapped. There were an estimated 

37,200 consumer product-related deaths 

in 2010. Almost 65 percent of these 

deaths were suffered by seniors (adults 

65 and older), despite this group making 

up only 13 of the U.S. population. 

Seniors also have suffered an estimated 

5 million injuries each year since 2008. 

The number, rate, and costs of serious 

injuries to seniors associated with 

consumer products rise every year and 

the size of the population of older adults 

in the United States is rising quickly as 

well. By 2030, older adults will 

comprise 20.6 percent of the U.S. 

population. By 2050, the senior 

population is expected to more than 

double, from 40 million in 2010, to 

more than 88 million. 

In addition to the physical toll of 

injuries on the senior population, the 

societal costs are significant. CPSC 

estimates that the total societal costs of 

injuries related to, but not necessarily 

caused by, consumer products involving 

older adults, including pain and 

suffering costs, exceed $100 billion 

annually. See http://www.cpsc.gov/en/

About-CPSC/Commissioners/RobertAdler/Commissioner-Adler-Statements/

Acting-Chairman-Robert-AdlerIntroduces-Senior-Safety-Initiative/. 

II. Topics for the Summit 

In general, the Summit will focus on 

the science of healthy aging and 

preventive services and will identify 

policy gaps that can be addressed to 

improve the quality of life for older 

adults. The Summit will begin with a 

daily plenary session for all attendees. 

Concurrent sessions on a variety topics 

related to healthy aging will occur in the 

afternoon. 

The full agenda can be found at the 

Summit Web site: www.2015Healthy

AgingSummit.org. 

CPSC’s engagement in the Summit 

will focus on soliciting information 

relating to ways that CPSC and other 

stakeholders, including state and local 

governments and non-governmental 

organizations, can reduce the risk to the 

senior population from consumer 

products that pose risks. Areas of 

interest include, but are not limited to: 

• Techniques or best practices for 

CPSC to provide messages to seniors 

and their caregivers; 

• Programs or initiatives targeting 

senior safety; 

• Strategies for improving safety in 

the home; 

• Causes of injuries to seniors from 

consumer products; 

• Human factors research needs about 

seniors; 

• Fire safety and seniors; and 

• Societal costs of injuries to seniors 

from consumer products. 

A session specifically for participants 

to provide comments to CPSC titled, the 

‘‘Consumer Product Safety Listening 

Session,’’ will be held on July 27, 2015, 

from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the 

Summit. We invite you to share your 

comments at this session. 

The Listening Session will open with 

a brief overview from CPSC on the 

topics of interest. The floor will then be 

open to pre-registered commenters. 

Each commenter will be limited to three 

(3) minutes. 

CPSC would like to hear from you and 

is interested in comments and responses 

to the following questions related to the 

topics listed above: 

1. What are the common safety issues 

and concerns when considering seniors 

and consumer product safety? 

2. What consumer product(s) 

present(s) the greatest hazard(s) to the 

seniors? How can each hazard be 

mitigated? 

3. What usage patterns for consumer 

products present special hazards to 

seniors? 

4. What communications issues/

opportunities exist for educating the 

senior population about hidden 

consumer product safety issues 

associated with aging? 

5. What product safety design 

characteristics have been shown to be 

most helpful to seniors? 

To provide oral comments during the 

CPSC Listening Session on July 27, 

2015, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., you 

must register for the 2015 Healthy Aging 

Summit at: www.2015healthyaging

summit.org to attend the conference. 

Time will be limited to three (3) 

minutes per commenter, with the CPSC 

Listening Session limited to one hour. 

Commenters will be scheduled on a 

first-come, first-served basis. Written 

submissions can be made to the CPSC, 

as provided in the ADDRESSES portion 

of this notice. 

Dated: May 20, 2015. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

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