Product Safety Consultants
Why does anyone need them?
Find the right consultant for your business need and your position in
the supply chain
or
- Outline your requirements by e-mail:
Describe, in detail, the product and the issue or the type of advice you
need, and we will find an expert with appropriate experience to contact
you. (This service is only available to solicitors or other potential
business customers.) Or use the e-mail enquiry
form.
- Phone to discuss requirements. UK: 020 8343 1754. International: +44
20 8343 1754. (No consultation charge for at least the first ten minutes
conversation.)
Experts in specific aspects of
product safety may be called in to
- Help designers and manufacturers of consumer products or work
equipment identify, understand and comply with the safety regulations
and standards that apply to the products they make.
- Analyse hazards and draw up internal safety specifications for
products outside the scope of published standards (eg innovative product
concepts)
- Conduct ergonomics analyses to identify possible hazards from
foreseeable consumer (mis)use, misconception, error or lapse of
attention
- Draft or evaluate user instructions and safety information required
on packaging and in catalogues
- Advise on type-approval and certification requirements required by
law or by major customers.
- Conduct or manage research to develop effective and practical safety
measures
- Advise on systems of sampling and quality control of safety-critical
issues of production batches
- Prescribe modifications to correct safety defects that come to light
in products after sale to consumers.
- Train staff to set up and maintain product safety files, that may be
needed to demonstrate due diligence to major customers, trading
standards authorities or a court
- Establish monitoring of safety complaints, escalation criteria and
contingency plans for recall action
- Advise retailers, importers and 'brand owners' who distribute
consumer products on diligence practice when relying on information or
assurances given by suppliers
- Help exporters identify and meet consumer safety laws and standards
in markets they want to expand into.
- Assist public liability insurers with risk rating, premium
discrimination and incentives for risk reduction
- Perform hazard analyses for companies using consumer products in the
workplace or in consumer services
- Write briefings for journalists, public relations, trade associations
or consumer pressure groups
- Prepare discussion documents and draft proposals for government and
standards bodies considering revising safety requirements
SITE LINKS: -
Published
regulations and guidance -
UK Government &
standards bodies - European
Commission - US Govt
- UK consumer and
professional bodies - International
sites - Consumer Risk Limited -
CSEN homepage