CPSC董事长安布朗：联邦防火的“明亮之光”
彼得G. Sparber
In one of her first meetings with fire officials, Ann Brown joked, “I never met a microphone I didn`t like. When I open the refrigerator door and the light goes on, I start talking.”
自去年的确认以来，担任美国消费者产品安全委员会（CPSC）的主席，布朗已经做得不仅仅是谈话。她从几年和半年睡觉时摇动委员会。
肯定，安布朗喜欢网络电视的明亮灯光。在她的第一个月作为主席，她出现在“60分钟”和“早上好美国”两次，现在是几个克林顿行政官员中的几个几乎接受了她想要的覆盖范围，当她想要它时。
然而，超越明亮的灯光，您将看到佣金几乎在预期的情况下运作。目前，没有联邦机构做得更多，以防止住宅火灾 - 考虑大部分棕色的消费者激活主义一直是玩具安全的令人惊讶的现实。
考虑事实：
In the late 1980s, the House Appropriations Committee directed the Commission to reduce the number of managers on staff. As a result, the CPSC`s fire safety program, which consisted mainly of managers, was eventually disbanded. Within months of becoming chairman, Brown restored a focus on fire by appointing James Hoebel as chief engineer for fire. Hoebel was an excellent choice. Not only had he directed the fire program before its demise, but he has maintained his credentials as the Commission`s expert on fire protection and still enjoys a solid professional and personal reputation.
20年来，委员会拒绝考虑是否应该有软垫家具的可燃标准。然而，布朗乘坐的几个月上台，CPSC发布了提前规则制定（ANPR）的通告通知 - 该指出，明年应提出与软垫椅子和沙发的“小型开放火焰点火”的标准。
此外，委员会正在评估家具行业的效力，自愿努力防止软垫家具的闷烧点火（这也可能导致该领域的强制性标准）。
委员会还在看着床垫和床上用品火灾，以更好地了解为什么 - 尽管有联邦标准 - 我们没有看到死亡人数较少。
根据委员会的说法，范围火灾每年占近80,000场火灾和190人死亡。在过去的秋天，如果可能有技术解决方案 - 一些Gizmo来检测和纠正“没人物”条件，委员会的秋天落在了斯蒂沃顶级制造商。该行业被要求自愿处理这一挑战。虽然在过去这种情况下，可能没有得到认真对待的，但是Ann Brown担任主席，据了解，一个志愿计划更好地来，更好的好。
Can we do something about fires caused by deteriorating electrical service in older homes? CPSC Director of Electrical Engineering Bill King believes that the answer may be a combination of presale inspections (like the termite inspections required in many jurisdictions) and technology (such as circuit breakers that can detect and deal with arcing and overloads). The project actually began under the previous chairman, Jacqueline Jones-Smith, but is being pursued with renewed enthusiasm under Brown.
In what was the most far-reaching action of its kind in CPSC history, the Commission recalled highly flammable sheer cotton and cotton-blend skirts imported from India.
In 1993, Jones-Smith told Congress that any further work on fire-safe cigarettes should be handled someplace other than the Commission. When Brown took over as chairman, however, she told Capitol Hill that the Commission was indeed the place for further possible work.
在棕色的方向上，委员会正在寻找火灾，以防一些电气消费品在一些电气塑料中使用的不当使用造成的电动加热器。
The Commission will continue its excellent smoke detector initiative, which has focused not only on increased residential use of detectors but, more important, on making sure detectors remain in working condition.
会主席安布朗完成工作在什么马y be the remaining two years of the Clinton Administration? (A President can appoint/change chairmen at his/her discretion.) Brown certainly has no patience with those who go slow. In any event, her guaranteed six-year term as one of the three commissioners ensures that she will be having at least some sort of impact for five more years.
帮助可以在路上。克林顿总统最近提名托马斯·摩尔填补了琼斯 - 史密斯的出发造成的空缺。如果摩尔被确认，如果他在大多数问题上与布朗的双方，这两者将有权常规地讲述保守玛丽拉胆（谁拥有对法规的长时间责任的纪录）。
Ann Brown Reigns（担任主席）两年或她完整的六年期限，她肯定会拯救生命并防止偶然火灾受伤。
PETER G. SPARBER has been in public and government relations for more than 20 years and owns and operates the public affairs consulting firm Sparber and Associates, Inc., in Washington, D.C. He works closely with the National Volunteer Fire Council, the National Association of State Fire Marshals, and many state fire groups. He regularly addresses fire service groups on political and marketing subjects.
