Injury Prevention Podcast

Thermostatic mixer valves - which keep water delivered to the bath below a maximum temperature - can prevent scalds. But would adding them to new build houses and those undergoing a change in use be cost-effective? Ceri Phillips (Swansea University, UK) talks to IP editor Brian Johnston about what his study in Scotland revealed. See also: Preventing bath water scalds: a cost-effectiveness analysis of introducing bath thermostatic mixer valves in social housing http://bit.ly/13VzgoT