ALEXANDRIA, Va. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d As she looks back on a career that spanned almost three decades in the bedding industry, Pat
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\nMartin says she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proud to have worked with an industry that took a proactive position on public safety issues.<\/p>\n
Her work, said her colleagues at the International Sleep Products Assn., helped lead to the development of a national open flame mattress standard, due to take effect next summer.<\/p>\n
Martin, retiring from ISPA next month, said the industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach \u00e2\u20ac\u0153made collaboration with regulators and the safety community so much easier and contributed to a standard that the industry can live with and that will save lives at the same time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Said ISPA President Dick Doyle: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is no doubt in my mind that we would not have achieved the very positive outcome that we did with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission open flame standard without the expertise and persistence of Pat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Martin is vice president of research and statistics at ISPA and executive director of ISPA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sleep Products Safety Council, a group that played a key role in the development of the flammability standard.<\/p>\n
ISPA officials said she was instrumental in helping to establish the Sleep Products Safety Council in 1986. That group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mission is to provide consumer safety information, support research, and promote activities aimed at reducing hazards associated with sleep products.<\/p>\n
One of SPSC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s innovations was creating hangtags with consumer safety information. Producers buy the tags from the SPSC and voluntarily attach them to mattresses.<\/p>\n
Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tireless efforts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to promote that project helped SPSC sell more than 220 million hangtags over the past 20 years, ISPA said. That helped raise funds for research conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, research that helped lead to a national FR standard that is practical for the industry to meet, according to ISPA.<\/p>\n
Martin has also worked on ISPA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Flammability SHOPtalk series sponsored jointly by the SPSC and ISPA. And she has worked on a new project targeted at helping to simplify the cigarette-ignition standard issued in the 1970s, ISPA said.<\/p>\n
In addition to her work in the FR arena, Martin managed ISPA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s statistics program. She helped to streamline the data analysis process so that ISPA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual report on industry sales and trends can be published in a more timely manner, and also helped to develop ISPA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s monthly Bedding Barometer, which provides industry sales data on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n
Martin said she was responding to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the growing need for more accurate, timely and detailed statistical data,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a trend that stemmed from a number of factors, including an increase in the number of public companies, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the decline in innerspring shipments, the impact of imports, and the public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s growing interest in non-innerspring products.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Martin said she \u00e2\u20ac\u0153never would have imagined that so much emphasis would be placed on our statistical reports nor that ISPA would begin to reach out to the investment community through quarterly press releases and plan a workshop for industry investors\/analysts,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which is tentatively scheduled for early May in New York.<\/p>\n
A successor to Martin has not been named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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