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Consumer Product Safety Commission

The mission of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is to reduce unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with consumer products. This is achieved through developing voluntary and mandatory standards, pursuing recalls of dangerous products, and providing safety information to the public.

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PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program has a clear and unique Federal role as the only Federal agency with the authority to identify and address risks posed by over 15,000 types of consumer products.
  • Long-term goals and annual performance measures are concrete, measurable, and directly support the agency's mission. CPSC is on track to achieve its long-term performance goal of a 20% reduction in the death rate from fires involving consumer products by 2013. Annual performance measures were revised to better indicate performance.
  • CPSC recently improved its management practices by developing a better way to systematically review its current regulations.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Establishing broader, more comprehensive long-term goals consistent with CPSC's overall mission.
  • Ensuring budget requests are explicitly tied to the accomplishment of annual and long-term performance goals, and that resource needs are presented clearly in the budget.

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