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Climbable Guard & Child Safety Research Program

Develop objective data to improve child safety standards, established by NOMMA Foundation. Collaboration with research centers and industry associations. Ensuring research impartiality and credibility.

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Climbable Guard & Child Safety Research Program

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  1. NOMMA Education Foundation • Guard Climbability & Child Safety Program

  2. PurposeDevelop objective pool of data to help with: • Possible creation of ASTM Standards • Provide reliable research that can be used in drafting future code proposals designed to improve child safety.

  3. Progress Since Last Climbable Guard Study Group Phone Conference • Have started contacting university injury prevention centers. Very hard to reach professors during the summer months, but contacts are picking up now. • Evaluating 260 current research programs to find commonalities with our project. Most of these are funded by the CDC and other government sources.

  4. Promising response from the Society for Advancement of Violence & Injury Research (SAVIR). This growing association currently represents about 18 injury prevention centers around the U.S. and about 80 individual researchers. • Exploring ways of working with SAVIR. The organization is interested in finding ways to make more industry-funded projects available to their membership.

  5. Impartiality Is Important!Looking at ways to help ensure the neutrality of the research. • Need “checks and balances” to ensure truly objective research. • Considering the idea of creating a Protocol Committee to review how research was designed and provide honest reviews. • The idea is that a “broader sets of hands” will help keep the project unbiased and credible.

  6. Timeframe: Goal is to release final report in 2008.Funding: The NOMMA Education Foundation (NEF) has set up the Lawler Research Project to focus on this issue. NEF already has a fund-raising structure in place. However, any fund-raising program must first be approved by the NOMMA Board and NEF Trustees. Other funding options will be considered as well (partnering, government sources, etc.)

  7. Past Research History • NOMMA has a track record of industry research. In the 1980s we conducted rail load tests that resulted in four ASTM testings standards that are still used today: • ASTM E 894 - Test methods for anchorage • ASTM E 935 - Metal rail system performance • ASTM E 985 - Specification for Metal rail systems • ASTM E 1481- Terminology of Rail systems

  8. Thank You For Your Time

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