Drug safety legislation closer to passing

Appeal for legislation on greater safety.

An Essex-headquartered company which claims to manufacture the world's leading "brand" of glass vision panel, is calling for legislation to regulate the quality and design of such products. With no statutory governance currently in place, it is concerned that a rash of badly-designed, poorer quality variants, that it says have emerged in recent years, pose a significant self-harm and ligature r...

Sweeping "new" proposed consumer product safety legislation.

On January 29, 2009, the federal government again proposed the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA), this time as Bill C-6. The CCPSA was first proposed by the Harper government in April 2008, following several high profile recalls and concerns about the health and safety risks of consumer products imported and/or sold in Canada. Bill C-52, as it was known then, died when the Canadian fed...

Road safety legislation in the Americas.

Legislating five of the main risk factors for road traffic injuries (RTIs), as much as enforcing the law, is essential in forging an integral culture of road safety. Analysis of the level of progression in law enforcement allows for an evaluation of the state of world regions. A secondary analysis of the 2009 Global status report on road safety: time for action survey was undertaken to evaluate...

How to determine personal use in drug legislation

Review of Drug Impaired Driving Legislation (Victoria Dec 2000) and New Random Drug Driving Legislation Based on Oral Fluid Testing

Background In the state of Victoria in Australia, the development of effective alcohol and driving legislation has produced significant reductions in alcohol related road trauma over the past three decades. The development of drug driving legislation in recent years has followed a similar progression from providing for impairment based enforcement to the recent introduction of random roadside s...