All, You are invited to the Northeast Product Safety Society’s 22nd annual membership dinner meeting tomorrow, May 26th, at the Holiday Inn, Boxborough MA featuring Dave Burns, Product Safety Investigator with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Dave Burns will discuss the US Consumer Product Safety Council (CPSC) and their role in protecting the consumer.
If you will be in the area this tomorrow, please consider joining us for dinner and the opportunity to mingle with interesting people involved with product safety. If you are not yet an NPSS member, this is a great opportunity for you to become a member. Further information about the NPSS 22nd annual membership dinner is available at http://www.nepss.net. A buffet dinner with choice of London Broil, New England Haddock and Vegetarian Lasagna entrée, salad, assorted vegetables and potato, rice or pasta will be served. Dessert will include assorted apple crisp, pies, coffee, and tea. Coffee service will be available at 5:00 PM and the cash bar will open at 6:00 PM. The dinner service will begin at 7:00 PM. If you require a secondary entrée selection, please indicate your primary and secondary choices when you make your reservation and every effort will be made to provide it. If you are planning to attend please make your reservations today or as soon as possible so NPSS may make proper accommodations with the hotel for the number of people attending. If you are planning to attend, please make your reservations with Donna Kearney at 978-870-5563 (email to [email protected]) or David Wheeler at 603-465-7500 or 603-321-0754 cell (email to [email protected]). There is no charge to NPSS members whose dues are paid before or at registration. Non-NPSS members are charged a $35 nominal fee. All attendees are asked to check in at a sign-up table which will be available at registration for dues payments by new or existing members. Bring a business card and we can speed things up at registration by scanning it. Please provide any special dietary requirements information with your reservation confirmation and every attempt will be made to provide for your needs. Please RSVP by May 25th as reservations are required. David Burns is a Product Safety Investigator with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, based in Southern New Hampshire, and has been with them since March. David’s job functions include determining compliance with CPSC regulations, laws and product standards and identifying potential, substantial and imminent hazards as well as collecting legal evidence sufficient to support claims of non-compliance with applicable Federal law, and serving as primary fact witness for the government in litigation and administrative hearings. This work includes all areas of incident investigation including Failure Analysis, Corrective Action, Containment, and Recommendations. Detailed reports suitable for legal actions are also part of David’s work. David majored in criminal justice and has a BS and MA from Northeastern University. Dave’s topic will cover the US Consumer Product Safety Council (CPSC) and their role in protecting the consumer. Mr. Burns will cover areas such as the structure of the CPSC, their mission, role, and powers, the primary markets and industries they are primarily concerned. He will also cover the role that standards play in the work of the CPSC and how CPSC works with industry and consumers in failure analysis, corrective action, and accident prevention. Last but not least, also discussed will be what and how we as product safety, compliance, and regulatory engineers can do and need to be aware of in terms of the CPSC. Additional information about our keynote speakers and his presentation is available at http://www.nepss.net. The Dinner agenda is 6:00 – 6:50 – Registration & Social 6:50 – 7:00 – Opening remarks and Welcome message from Steve Brody, NPSS President 7:00 – 8:00 – Dinner 8:00 – 8:10 – Introductions by Steve Brody, NPSS President, Tony Nikolassy, Vice President, will introduce our keynote speaker. 8:20 – Keynote speaker Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.net. A membership application form is available at http://www.nepss.net/page18.html. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South, take Exit 28 to Route 111 East Turn right onto Adams Place (approximately 500 feet from Route 495 North) The Holiday Inn is the last building on the left. We are looking for a few volunteers to help on the registration table on the 26th. If you would like to be one of these volunteers, please contact David Wheeler, Dinner Chairman, at [email protected]. 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