design

Today, KID launched a new online course geared towards entrepreneurs and businesses that create children’s products – the KID Design Safety Toolkit. The course, which is free of charge, provides children’s product developers with the information and tools they need… Read More

KID’s Executive Director and Assistant Director attended the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO)‘s Annual Meeting last month in National Harbor, Maryland. This was the first in-person ICPHSO conference since the pandemic. KID staff participated in ICPSHO’s virtual… Read More

Despite the shadow of COVID-19, KID has achieved a lot the past year and we are excited to share it with you in our FY 2021 Annual Report (June 2020 to May 2021). Our staff found new, creative ways to… Read More

Putting it in perspective: You’re 4 years old. You and your siblings are playing hide and seek, and you’re struggling to find a place to hide. You look around everywhere, come across a dresser with an empty drawer, and decide… Read More

July 28, 2018 marked the second anniversary of the recall of millions of clothing storage units (dressers) from IKEA. A little over two weeks before this IKEA recall anniversary, the CPSC posted another recall re-announcement.  This reannouncement was for the… Read More

Late last week, the US CPSC voted 3-1 to file suit against Britax to force action on B.O.B. jogging strollers made prior to 2015. According to the complaint, these strollers have caused injury to both children and adults when the… Read More

After six children lost their lives and other children were seriously injured, IKEA finally issued a recall of millions of their MALM and other models of chests and dressers in the U.S. and Canada. The CPSC urges consumers to contact… Read More

Thirteen … that’s how many deaths could have been prevented in the latest instance of corporate officers knowingly concealing a serious product defect through secrecy agreements.  Through secrecy agreements in litigation, corporations and manufacturers hide their wrongdoing and avoid responsibility…. Read More

When I came across this story, it caught my eye – a young boy was injured when a toy eyeball he was playing with cracked and leaked into his eyes.  In KID’s early days, our co-founder Boaz Keysar used to… Read More

This summer KID’s TEST (Teaching Early Safety Testing) program is getting a makeover. This KID program is designed to promote the development of safe products by integrating design safety, standards, and testing practices into the undergraduate engineering curriculum.  We have… Read More