Product Safety
Why Implement Product Safety
Product safety is important to both manufacturers and consumers. Most of the company today does apply product safety management in their company to reduce unwanted inccident to happen. By implementing product safety management into the organization, it enable to reduce accidents, reduce product recalls, reduce insurance premiums, increase the safety and quality of products, provide a more defensible product and company in the event of litigation, and minimize the chance of punitive damages (Ross, n.d.).
It is important for all the manufacturers to implement product safety because all this while, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commision(CPSC) has encouraged companies to implement active product safety management. Therefore, “Handbook for the Manufacturing of Safer Consumer Product” were published since June 1975 and revised in May 1977. The Handbook identifies the elements of comprehensive system approach to manufacturing safe products (Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2006).
On August 2008, President Bush signed the law of Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act(CPSIA). The act was created to establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children’s products and to reauthorize and develop the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSIA reglation are intended to make products for children under age 12 safer by requiring manufacturers and importers to show that these products do not have harmful levels of lead and phthalates (Corley, n.d.).
Since 2006, we have witnessed many product safety scandals beginning with infant toys, infant children accesories Daiso Holding USA to Salmonella contamination of peanut butter from the United States. The safety of products is paramount importance because there are many website and organization committed to product safety to make sure that dangerous product are not release to the public and warn about the possibilities of dangerous product (Product-Safety.com,
Product safety is important to both manufacturers and consumers. Most of the company today does apply product safety management in their company to reduce unwanted inccident to happen. By implementing product safety management into the organization, it enable to reduce accidents, reduce product recalls, reduce insurance premiums, increase the safety and quality of products, provide a more defensible product and company in the event of litigation, and minimize the chance of punitive damages (Ross, n.d.).
It is important for all the manufacturers to implement product safety because all this while, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commision(CPSC) has encouraged companies to implement active product safety management. Therefore, “Handbook for the Manufacturing of Safer Consumer Product” were published since June 1975 and revised in May 1977. The Handbook identifies the elements of comprehensive system approach to manufacturing safe products (Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2006).
On August 2008, President Bush signed the law of Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act(CPSIA). The act was created to establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children’s products and to reauthorize and develop the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSIA reglation are intended to make products for children under age 12 safer by requiring manufacturers and importers to show that these products do not have harmful levels of lead and phthalates (Corley, n.d.).
Since 2006, we have witnessed many product safety scandals beginning with infant toys, infant children accesories Daiso Holding USA to Salmonella contamination of peanut butter from the United States. The safety of products is paramount importance because there are many website and organization committed to product safety to make sure that dangerous product are not release to the public and warn about the possibilities of dangerous product (Product-Safety.com,
References: Larson, A. (2003, September). Protecting Consumers from Defective Products. In Product Liability Law (par. 1). Retrieved from ExpertLaw website: http://www.expertlaw.com/library/product_liability/ product_liability.html