The Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) (formerly the AGRSS® Council Inc.) has seen major growth in recent months in interest in implementing the Auto Glass Replacement Safety Standard (AGRSS®) beyond North America. “In every instance those reaching out to the AGSC have told us that AGRSS® stood out as the single best mechanism to introduce [...]
The Auto Glass Safety Council™ (formerly the AGRSS® Council Inc.) not only has a new Registered Company logo to coincide with its new name, but it also has a new logo usage policy for Registered Companies to follow. The policy, available online here, specifies that only Registered Companies in good standing may use the Registered [...]
Captain Richard Phillips, “Hero of the High Seas,” will deliver the keynote address at Auto Glass Week™ 2012 at the Louisville Marriott Downtown, Friday, September 21, 2012. Captain Phillips is scheduled to speak Friday morning about the vital importance of leadership and teamwork. Captain Phillips was captured by Somali pirates in 2009 when they attacked [...]
Two representatives of the Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) (formerly the AGRSS®Council Inc.) are scheduled to speak during an upcoming meeting of the Ski Area Vehicle Maintenance Institute (SAVMI). Jean Pero of Mygrant Glass, who serves on the AGSC board of directors and chairs the accreditation committee, and Chris Courtney of Crystal Clear Auto Glass, [...]
Debra Levy, president of the Auto Glass Safety Council™ (formerly the AGRSS® Council Inc.) and publisher of AGRR™ magazine/glassBYTEs.com™, spoke in March at the annual Novus Super Session in Hilton Head, S.C., about the importance of being AGRSS®-Registered.
In its annual cars issue, ConsumerReports has rated a number of vehicles for safety, utilizing scores from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). One major category of the rankings took a look at front and side crash ratings, with a combined overall NHTSA score. Though many [...]
In November, the Auto Glass Safety Council™ (formerly the AGRSS® Council Inc.) announced several major advancements to its third-party validation program. One of these involves changing the way locations are selected to be validated. Beginning with the first validations in 2012, all AGRSS®-Registered companies have moved from random audits to audits of every company during [...]
Two consumers have filed a class action lawsuit against American Honda Motor Co., Inc., claiming that the window regulator in certain Honda vehicles is defective and results in the sidelite falling into the door frame or becoming stuck in the fully-open position. Phyllis Grodzitsky of California, owner of a Honda Odyssey, and Jeremy Bordelon of [...]
The Department of Transportation recently issued a third delay to requiring a rear visibility standard to be set to help prevent childbackover deaths, according to a recent statement from KidsAndCars.org, a national nonprofit child safety organization dedicated to preventing injuries and deaths of children in and around motor vehicles. In 2010, the National Highway Traffic [...]
The Board of Directors of the Auto Glass Safety Council™ (formerly the AGRSS® Council Inc.) has a new member. Troy Mason, owner of Techna Glass Inc., an AGRSS®-Registered company based in Sandy Utah, with multiple locations across the Southwest, was elected last month to a three-year term. “I’m really excited to be a part of [...]