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- Title
The Effect of Product Safety Regulation on Safety Precautions.
- Authors
Viscusi, W. Kip; Cavallo, Gerald O.
- Abstract
This paper explores the means by which lighter safety regulations alter the precautionary behavior of 200 subjects in a field test of cigarette lighters with a child-resistant feature. The new lighter design leads respondents to believe the lighters are safer, but there is no clear-cut evidence that the effect on perceived risk levels is excessive. Using the estimated relationship between cigarette lighter risk perceptions and a variety of measures of precautions, this paper provides explicit estimates of the effect of regulations on precautionary behavior and on lighter safety. On balance, the child-resistant feature will reduce fire-related injuries by much more than any diminished precaution taking.
- Subjects
SAFETY regulations; PRODUCT safety; CIGAR lighters; FIRE risk assessment; RISK perception
- Publication
Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 1994, Vol 14, Issue 6, p917
- ISSN
0272-4332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1539-6924.1994.tb00061.x