Topic summary
Blowdryer
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hair dryer.
History
In the 1970s, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission set up guidelines that hair dryers had to meet to be considered safe to manufacture. Since 1991 the CPSC has mandated that all dryers must use a ground fault circuit interrupter so that it cannot electrocute a person if it gets wet. By 2000, reported deaths by blowdryers had dropped from fewer than ten to fewer than two people a year.