Mechanical Failure Analysis & Product Safety
Over the past 50 years, people have developed an increased concern with helping consumers—and particularly child consumers—stay safe while interacting with products. To align with the 1970 Consumer Product Safety Act and protect users, experts can implement multiple methods to reduce mechanical failures or improper use, from eliminating hazards in product design to creating clear instructions and warnings.
Using a wide variety of proven techniques, our mechanical and biomedical forensic engineers apply expertise across an array of product safety and mechanical failure analyses, including:
- Consumer products
- Outdoor power equipment
- Design defects
- Manufacturing defects
Leveraging Proven Analyses for Consumer Protection
Mechanical and product safety failures occur for a myriad of reasons, including misuse, manufacturing defects, or design issues. Leveraging root cause and failure analyses, Kimley-Horn’s experts can evaluate which reason provoked a specific product’s failure.
When all factors are identified, we will develop either an improvement action plan or provide opinions and reports to comply with circuit and federal court requirements. Those opinions often include the following steps:
- Redesign any features of the product that present hazards
- Guard features that cannot be mediated through redesign
- Provide special user training on the product if the hazardous features cannot be guarded
- Warn users about the hazards and provide safety instructions for proper use
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