Last week the Center for Justice & Democracy released a report on playground safety. Over the weekend, this Wyoming media outlet really understood the study's bottom line - that litigation is a necessary complement to regulation to ensure childrens' safety.
You can't assume that any playground is automatically safe, because the Consumer Product Safety Commission standards are not mandatory."
Doroshow says their report explores the history of playground safety issues and finds that often lawsuits are the quickest way to improve safety. She says use of arsenic-treated wood in playgrounds is a good example.
"Litigation has helped make sure that new playgrounds are not built with arsenic-laced wood. Unfortunately, some of the older playgrounds still have it."
This comes at the time while we wait for President Bush to return from
his diplomatic trip to Asia (and watching the Olympics) his aides have
said
that he is expected to sign legislation to improve consumer product
safety, particularly for children.
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