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03/30/2015
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Kitchen fixtures are the main villains of the Brazilian consumer safety, according to unpublished research conducted by Inmetro to map the profile of consumer accidents, identifying the products and services that offer more risk to health and safety. This group of products was cited by 23.8% of consumers who answered a questionnaire on the institute's website. The contributions were harvested between the end of last year and the 28th of January. Packaging come soon after, with 19.2% of the citations and after the household (13.1%).
According to Paul Coscarelli, assistant Evaluation board Inmetro Conformity, the main problems related to home appliances, informed consumers are shocks and burns caused by modelers curls and flat irons and cuts in accidents with stoves whose edges have metal edges that end wounding. Outnumbered were also cited accidents with electric iron, oven and multiprocessor.
Regarding the type of product accidents with tin cans lead to statistics, with 14.6% of the citations. Outweigh the cases with stoves (11.5%), coming soon then and domestic stairs (3.8%).
According Coscarelli, the search results are very similar to the data that make up the Inmetro System Consumption Accident Monitoring (Sinmac), which since 2006 welcomes consumer reports.
- The creation and the improvement of technical regulations, conducting awareness campaigns and interactions with the productive sector in order to make them more secure and competitive products are some of the actions guided by Sinmac data, and now this research - explains the assistant the Conformity Assessment Board.
The research also shows that the total number of reported accidents, 27.7% of them took the victims to seek medical attention, and 16.2% of consumers had to be absent from work. The reported injury, major cuts were (33.5%) and burns (19.6%).
Inmetro states that a consumer accident occurs when a product or service causes harm to the consumer, even when used or handled in accordance with the instructions provided by the supplier. Whenever this occurs, they should be recorded in the Office's website.
Together, these statistics have been generating reports with details about the accident, such as filters by type and class of product and state, which can also be accessed on the institute's website.
Source: The Globe
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