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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GREAT JOY: TODDLERS’ LIVES WILL BE SAVED

A New Technology to prevent dresser tip-overs

Washington, DC, March 6, 2022

At last, what has been needed, since at least the year 2000, is a practical and effective solution to prevent injuries and deaths of little children by dressers tipping over. And it is now available. The founder of Surefix Solutions, LLC, Jean-Francois Orsini, Ph.D., has been awarded US Patent 11,178,968 B2 on November 23, 2021, “Drawer Dresser and Drawer Cabinet with Stabilization Device”.

According to a Consumer Reports of August 28, 2021, every 60 minutes a child is treated in a hospital emergency room for injuries related to a furniture tip-over. There have been at least 2 recalls of defective dressers but they failed to alert owners. Dresser owners are instructed to anchor their furniture to the wall, but two-third of owners do not anchor, despite a Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency, having set up the “anchorit.gov” web site. The New York Times, in a January 6, 2020, article, announced that IKEA had to pay a $46 million settlement to the parents of 2-year-old Jozef Dudek killed by a dresser and $50 million to the families of 3 other children killed by toppled over furniture.

The newly patented technology is an implementation of an incredibly old law of physics.  To prevent an object to topple in one direction it takes a counterweight to counter the toppling. Many new dressers are manufactured with light materials and most often sold as kits to be assembled by owners. The manufacturers are not about to add 50 pounds of steel or lead to be used as counterweight. But they can include in their kits sturdy plastic bags, for the purpose of having the buyers fill them with enough pounds of water.

The business plan of Surefix Solutions is to license existing furniture makers and sellers to add a Surefix solution to their products to save children as soon as possible and on a wide basis with non- exclusive licenses. Please contact us at GoSureFix.com to enroll your support.

Contact us at GoSureFix.com

— PRESS RELEASE NUMBER TWO —

A WIN-WIN PROPOSAL THAT WILL SAVE CHILDREN FROM DRESSER TIP-OVERS

Bringing both fairness and ultimate safety to a controversial but critical issue

Washington, DC, March 14, 2022

Many parents who lost children from dressers that tipped over had no idea that that could happen with dressers and in their homes. They had no perception of the hazard presented by some dressers. A public policy needs to manage this perception and promote a clear understanding of the nature of this hazard and what behavior is needed to deal with it.

There are many hazards in our lives, including kitchen knives, guns, cigarettes, automobiles and many household cleaning products.

But dresser that can tip over are also very hazardous as they have maimed and killed mostly children under 5 years of age. Dresser tip-overs do not go over the threshold of the public perception of their hazardous nature. Even though the death of infants is particularly devastating.

First, the reality of the lack of perception of this hazard is to be acknowledge for establishing a good policy.

Now, some parents and advocates are pushing for very stringent standards to make sure that dressers that will be manufactured in the future will never, ever, tip over.

There is a strong push back from the furniture industry, and it is disingenuous to put it all in account of big business greed. There is a great market for light, cheaper dressers. On a furniture seller website one can filter one’s search of dressers as “under $250”. That is the market! Most customers cannot afford dressers that cost over $2000, also sold by the same company. To deprive these people of the opportunity to purchase a low-cost dresser is unfair and against public service.

So, here’s the proposal: Two categories 1/ the sturdy dressers that will not tip over and 2/ The light dressers should be sold with a strong warning of the hazard (as on cigarettes packs). Their buyers will also have to accept the responsibility to ensure their stability (conditional sales as for some medicine). Either anchor them to the wall or chose other means to stabilize them, such as the SureFix Solutions.

Please, register your reaction for the different parties to make peace. Help save kids!

Contact

Jean-Francois Orsini, Ph.D.

gosurefix.com