Consumer Product Safety Assessments: Thermal Sciences

Thought leadership

How does Exponent help manufacturers meet stringent safety standards and navigate legal and regulatory concerns for consumer products?

Exponent scientists and engineers draw on decades of experience to help clients achieve thermal and chemical safety and advise on regulatory requirements for a variety of consumer products from appliances, apparel, and health and beauty products, to furniture, toys, and recreational equipment.

We assess potential hazards associated with the use and misuse of a wide variety of consumer products.

Exponent provides the technical expertise and regulatory support needed to help minimize fire, explosion, burn injuries, and toxic exposure risks for all types of consumer products. We routinely help product manufacturers address complex questions regarding design, mitigating risks for fire, burns, and scalds. Our multidisciplinary approach ensures that we're not just looking at challenges directly associated with thermal issues, but also consider human factors' issues, such as age appropriateness for usage, and human health issues, like lead and phthalate exposure.

Capabilities

For more than half a century, we've helped clients understand product failures, and by applying past lessons, we can help you address safety challenges at every stage of the consumer product lifecycle, including development, user testing, application of standards, and submission of regulatory approvals.

Exponent's multidisciplinary teams provide a breadth of support to help you understand issues regarding consumer product recalls. We provide testing and statistical analysis to help you determine whether your product issue is an anomaly or legitimate product issue, and provide you rigorous technical support to make critical recall decisions. We help you navigate regulatory requirements, including communications with the public and Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled

With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.

Chemicals in blue drum barrels. Exponent test and chemicals to help develop prevent fire hazards.

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Experts

Our global and comprehensive expertise across industries gives us a deep understanding of current challenges, best industry practices, and the implications of emerging technologies.