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Furniture Safety Meeting Changed to Aug. 18
July 27,
2015 by in Industry, Special Events 
The American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) will hold a furniture safety meeting from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 18 to discuss technical issues related to preventing furniture and television tip over accidents.
The meeting will be held at Samson Marketing at 2575 Penny Rd. in High Point. It was previously scheduled for Aug. 11 but the change was made to accommodate the schedule of regulatory officials.
Commissioners and technical staff from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are expected to participate in the meeting, along with the ASTM Subcommittee on Furniture Safety, which is responsible for the current voluntary tip over prevention standard for clothing storage units.
Seating is limited and members of the ASTM Subcommittee on Furniture Safety are urged to register before July 31. Registration will be open to anyone in the industry after July 31.
According to CPSC data, television and furniture tip over accidents have failed to decline in recent years. The CPSC made furniture and television tip over prevention a priority for 2015, allocating $400,000 for a national public awareness campaign launched in June.
The “Anchor It” campaign is designed to communicate the dangers of tip over accidents and how easy it is to properly anchor televisions and furniture.
The campaign includes a video public service announcement that spotlights the natural propensity of young children to be accident prone and a new website, www.anchorit.gov. HGTV personality Tiffany Brooks, an interior designer, wife and mother, is the “Anchor It” campaign spokesperson with CPSC Commissioners Marietta Robinson and Joseph Mohorovic.