Meeting safety standards
Early warning surveillance

Product safety and reliability studies often involve comparisons to standards that are economically achievable with the best available design, manufacturing, and testing practices.

Comparative studies of failure to meet these standards can identify problems in product design, manufacturing, and testing. These studies also are useful to describe affected populations, clarify how failures occur, and find appropriate means to reduce failures.

Producers and consumers alike benefit from scientific research that reduces deaths, injuries, and financial loss.

The best statistical methods in quality control research come with an established track record in identifying a need for product improvement. An example of such methods can be found in the scientific journal, The American Journal of Public Health.

QCS develops custom early warning systems to identify potentially unsafe or unreliable products. Detecting product problems early benefits both consumers and producers by reducing deaths, injures, and financial losses.

We work enthusiastically for clients to prioritize product safety and reliability investigations on an established, scientific basis. An example of our approach can be found in the scientific journal, Injury Prevention.

These early warning systems are designed to rank potential problems by their likelihood to cause harmful product failures. The systems are based on surveillance of data from public sources as well as consumer complaints, warranties, field reports, or from other sources.

Product safety and reliability has importance for consumers, producers, dealers and retailers, insurers, lenders, financial analysts, attorneys, suppliers, and government regulators. To name a few.

The map below shows the locations of single-vehicle, fatal crashes of 1996 Ford Explorer four-door, 4x2 utility vehicles originally equipped with Firestone tires that occurred with and without reported tire failures through calendar year 1999.

Injury Prevention, April 2004, 10:88-92, figure 2. Reproduced with permission from the BMJ Publishing Group.

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