CPSC - How to Comment

[riot_nrrd]

All - CPSC, based on a request form the Power Tool Institute, has extended the comment period to Feburary 10, 2012. So please, please, please make your voice heard! Go submit comments!


Riot_Nrrd

From the CPSC website:

However, to ensure that the public has an adequate opportunity to comment with regard to the underlying reports regarding the Table Saw Study that have been produced to PTI, the Commission will be posting those reports in its FOIA Reading Room on the CPSC Web site and will make them a part of the administrative record. Through this notice, we are announcing a 60-day
extension of the comment period to give all interested parties
additional time to prepare their responses to the ANPR. Thus, the
comment period for the ANPR is extended to February 10, 2012.

[JPG]

All - CPSC, based on a request form the Power Tool Institute, has extended the comment period to Feburary 10, 2012. So please, please, please make your voice heard! Go submit comments!


Riot_Nrrd

From the CPSC website:

However, to ensure that the public has an adequate opportunity to comment with regard to the underlying reports regarding the Table Saw Study that have been produced to PTI, the Commission will be posting those reports in its FOIA Reading Room on the CPSC Web site and will make them a part of the administrative record. Through this notice, we are announcing a 60-day
extension of the comment period to give all interested parties
additional time to prepare their responses to the ANPR. Thus, the
comment period for the ANPR is extended to February 10, 2012.

I do hope this is due to a large volume of response, and not the opposite!

Anything this far reaching needs to account for those wide differences of those affected.

I hope something rational that we all can live with and also protect the 'ignorant' from themselves will result. I just am not smart enough to currently know what that is!

I just wish a certain flooring 'contractor' had 'discovered' band saws.

[cabotcat]

These are the comments that I left:

The government at any level does not need to intervene in respect to non-professional table saw standards. Keep your focus on OSHA and leave private woodworkers out of the picture. Every time you take up an unnecessary cause you reach in my pocket to withdraw more cash. When will you people learn that you cannot legislate common sense. At some point we need to take personal responsibility for our actions. This includes non-professional woodworking standards. The fact that Sawstop sponsors and supports this action only serves to confirm the cronyism so rampant among you people.

Get out of our private lives.

[JPG]

These are the comments that I left:

The government at any level does not need to intervene in respect to non-professional table saw standards. Keep your focus on OSHA and leave private woodworkers out of the picture. Every time you take up an unnecessary cause you reach in my pocket to withdraw more cash. When will you people learn that you cannot legislate common sense. At some point we need to take personal responsibility for our actions. This includes non-professional woodworking standards. The fact that Sawstop sponsors and supports this action only serves to confirm the cronyism so rampant among you people.

Get out of our private lives.

Hey! Their title is CONSUMER Product Safety Commission.

That be us and all those idiots who seem to be incapable of rudimentary thought processes.

They cannot make distinctions between rational thinking hobbyists and non-thinking idiots. There job IS to protect them from themselves.

However IMHO if they think they can succeed is perhaps folly. Anything they come up with that is too cumbersome will be abandined just as the current 'safety stuff' is today.

Hopefully this 'threat' will get the power tool gurus to cooperate and come up with a common alternative that we all can live with.

[cabotcat]

Good point but not sure they represent "us". I simply want to be left alone to make sawdust.

Hey! Their title is CONSUMER Product Safety Commission.

That be us and all those idiots who seem to be incapable of rudimentary thought processes.

They cannot make distinctions between rational thinking hobbyists and non-thinking idiots. There job IS to protect them from themselves.

However IMHO if they think they can succeed is perhaps folly. Anything they come up with that is too cumbersome will be abandined just as the current 'safety stuff' is today.

Hopefully this 'threat' will get the power tool gurus to cooperate and come up with a common alternative that we all can live with.

[JPG]

Good point but not sure they represent "us". I simply want to be left alone to make sawdust.

Me Too!...

[dusty]

Good point but not sure they represent "us". I simply want to be left alone to make sawdust.

Most of us probably feel that way --- until we find ourselves lying on a table in the ER wanting a doctor to put us back together and stop hurting.

[JPG]

Most of us probably feel that way --- until we find ourselves lying on a table in the ER wanting a doctor to put us back together and stop hurting.

Having recently departed from the ER for reasons totally unrelated to making sawdust, I can attest to the fact that although some hurt is experienced there, it is after getting back home that the 'hurting' begins and lingers.


Hopefully temporarily!:rolleyes:

[pti]

The Power Tool Institute has created a website to make it easy to submit a comment on the proposed CPSC table saw rule. There is a suggested draft comment provided but users can change this language as they wish.

Please visit http://www.powertoolinstitute.info for addtional information and to submit a comment.