Strict products liability, on the other hand, focuses not on the actions of the people involved but rather on the performance of the product itself. Some harms occur in ways that can only be described as an accident. That is, there was nothing anyone could have done otherwise that could have prevented the harm. Neither the producer nor the consumer acts negligently, but the consumer gets injured nonetheless. The question then arises: In the absence of fault who should bear responsibility, who should be accountable, for paying damages? The strict products liability standard-assigns this responsibility to producers.