ABSTRACT
Actual changing in technology and the advances in the science are always surprisingly users in a global and expanded market. What can be seen in many market shelves are some products with a number of information and devices which require a high level of knowledge and discernment by users. Apparently the society is not prepared to these advances. The lack of knowledge, understanding and attention are causes of many accidents with consumer products inside the residential environment. Consumer products are considered in this study as those used inside the domestic environment. A strong input from ergonomics is used to obtain subsidies and support to some case studies and analysis carried out in this dissertation. Some methods to the analysis of accidents are introduced and used in this study, however an emphasis in the analysis of some selected accidents is given. It is introduced a methodology used to collect and apply data to a sample of accidents, and to carry out simulations of accidents.
