The Toy Association’s “Toy Safety Mom” Joan Lawrence
As The Toy Association’s “Toy Safety Mom” and SVP of standards and regulatory affairs, Joan Lawrence manages The Toy Association’s product safety programs encompassing the development of safety standards as well as industry and consumer safety education.
In addition to offering tips for safe play to parents and caregivers on The Toy Association’s www.PlaySafe.org, her interviews and advice appear regularly on parenting blogs and in articles and broadcast segments around the globe. Joan also lectures on toy safety to students in the baccalaureate Toy Design Program at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and has authored several articles on toy safety and standards.
She is the daughter of a prominent pediatrician and herself a mother of three children ~ making her commitment to toy safety much more than a job.
