In addition to meeting the legal requirements described in the corporate education page, as a manufacturer or importer, you should take other steps to ensure that your products not only meet or exceed the requirements of federal safety laws, but also make their design and production as safe as possible.Here is a brief list of …
In addition to meeting the legal requirements described in the corporate education page, as a manufacturer or importer, you should take other steps to ensure that your products not only meet or exceed the requirements of federal safety laws, but also make their design and production as safe as possible.Here is a brief list of some of our recommendations, and provide links for inquiries about detailed regulations: (Note: This document is not a list of mandatory requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, but a list of best practices and recommendations compiled by the Office of the Small Business Inspector of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.)
• Be designed for safety.
-Take safety as a key consideration in the design phase.
-Point out potential hazards and assess risks.
-Consider foreseeable consumer methods of using (or misusing) the product.
-Strive to eliminate or avoid confirmed risks, or warn users.
-Refer to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Handbook on Manufacturing Safer Consumer Goods for guidance and best practices.
-Ensure that your products meet or exceed all applicable industry-recognized voluntary standards (“voluntary standards”).
requirements.
* Establish security mechanisms in your supply chain.
-When formulating product specifications, make detailed instructions in the safety and compliance section, especially in terms of materials used in children’s products.
-Use suppliers who can always reliably supply compliant materials and components.
-Exercise moderate caution when relying on your suppliers and take measures to confirm, such as specific regulations in the contract
Determine the materials used, go to the factory for inspection, or conduct random inspections of products for continuous safety compliance.
• Clearly understand the business and regulatory environment in which you operate
-Review consumer feedback and evaluate product safety based on the information provided to your company. Specific practices include customer service calls, online consumer reviews, and publicly searchable databases through the Consumer Product Safety Commission. SaferProducts.gov Track consumer feedback on your company’s products provided to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
-Figure out your legal liability and report your product when the following conditions occur: (1) It may not meet the requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, (2) It is defective and may cause significant injury, (3) Or the product is unreasonably harmful or dangerous, or it is a product that needs to be reported for legal reasons (please click here for a comprehensive understanding of these reasons).
Notify by email,SaferProducts.gov , Recalls.gov , Twitter and our RSS messaging to track the recall of products similar to your products.
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• Be prepared
-A recall plan is available for use when you need to act quickly.
-Consider using batch control to confirm products that may need to be recalled. Doing so will help find those that are not affected.
Specific products affected by compliance and/or product safety issues. • Record, record, and ensure records
-Record the work you have done to meet the requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and follow the recommendations listed above.
-When a product recall occurs, if there is a record, it is convenient for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to work with you to understand why you are
The efforts made to produce safe consumer goods and know where the mistakes occurred.
-Records can also help determine how to take action to ensure future safety and compliance and avoid more recalls
Or other expensive remedial actions.
* Challenge yourself to produce the safest consumer goods possible.
-Exceed mandatory and voluntary standards to ensure that products are designed to be as safe as possible.
-Looking for help from the outside, ask people outside the company to honestly evaluate the safety and estimate that consumers may
The way of using (and misusing) the product.
-Continuous efforts to improve the safety of your products.Your company’s safety culture is essential; strive to maintain a
A culture that emphasizes and focuses on product safety and compliance with the requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Safety design
A safe product begins with design.A well-thought-out design analysis should identify potential hazards and assess risks; this
The analysis should include foreseeable ways in which consumers use (or misuse) the product.
The designer should then work hard to eliminate the risk, avoid the risk, or warn the user of the discovered risk. These three types
The adoption of measures should follow the above order.These “hierarchical security measures” recognize that the most reliable way to eliminate risks is through
Re-design to eliminate risks.If the redesign is not feasible, the next best way is to set up a protection or barrier，
Isolate users from hazards.If setting up protection is not feasible, the next step is to use warnings.Introducing to consumers
When explaining how to use your product appropriately, you should refer to the “How to Write Consumer Product Use” issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Description-Manufacturer’s Guide”.
When designing your product, you should be familiar with the applicable mandatory standards and any consumer products that may be applicable to your company’s production.
Voluntary standards for consumables.
There are thousands of existing voluntary standards, and one or more may apply to your consumer goods.If you are designing a new product or a new class of products, although a voluntary safety standard that directly affects your product may not exist, you can still refer to similar product standards.Although some voluntary standards have not been adopted or relied on by the Consumer Product Safety Commission as mandatory standards, the staff of the Consumer Product Safety Commission strongly encourage manufacturers to learn and, where possible, comply with the relevant parts of these voluntary standards. Many manufacturers regard voluntary standards as the bottom line of safety and strive to meet and exceed these standards.The guiding principles and expertise in these standards may be extremely valuable to new designers and manufacturers entering the market.
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expensive.Voluntary standards are technical documents that contain well-thought-out ideas from other manufacturers, designers, and safety experts.
Judgment and many years of experience, these people have spent a lot of time studying a certain type of product.
You can learn more about or purchase voluntary standards from here.Click here to view the current CPSC staff
A list of voluntary standard activities to participate in.
In addition to the free manual for Manufacturing Safer Consumer Goods provided by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, you can also purchase an international voluntary standard that can help you in this process: ISO 10377:2013 “Consumer Product Safety-Supplier Guide”. The guide is prepared for “suppliers” (that is, manufacturers) and gives valuable opinions to manufacturers, including “Safety issues in design”, “Safety issues in production” and “Safety issues in the market” and other parts.
Your supply chain safety When evaluating the supply chain, you need to be familiar with the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s important change testing, regular testing, and component testing.
requirements.
You should be prepared to work closely with suppliers to ensure that they produce safe and compliant products for your company.You should draft product specifications and explain in detail the parts related to safety compliance, especially the parts related to the materials used in children’s products.Use suppliers who can always reliably produce compliant materials and components.In addition, in the increasingly globalized environment of the supply chain, you may often not understand your suppliers and their reputation or history. Therefore, you should consider taking additional precautions to ensure that the materials entering your supply chain or finished products are of good quality.Your prudent measures may include specifying the use of certain materials in the contract and requiring the implementation of supply chain best practices (such as Carter’s “Ten C’s for Evaluating Suppliers” model [1]) to ensure that the supplier’s capabilities are consistent with your needs.You can also check the public list of suppliers compiled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to find out which suppliers have received warning letters for not meeting the requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
You should treat safety issues carefully and take appropriate prudent measures to ensure that the materials in your supply chain meet your performance
Standards, in line with applicable performance and chemical requirements.Parts that are not specified in the contract for use or due to incomplete
Control measures make it easy for you to accept unrecognized substitutes for raw materials. These practices will make you (as a manufacturer or importer)
Merchants) Take risks and manufacture defective, unsafe or non-conforming products.Manufacturers and importers are considered to be in compliance with the union
The responsible party for state product safety laws.
Clearly understand the business environment
Tracking news and recall notifications about your industry can give you a good understanding of the problems facing the industry.The Consumer Product Safety Commission expects you, as a company, to fully understand the problems and concerns facing the industry.You should check the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall list, which can be searched by “Product category” for useful information about the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall of products similar to your product.You should consider www.cpsc.gov/email
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Register on the website to receive our recall email.You should read and understand those recall information so that your company
The company will not make the same mistake.
Tracking safety reports about your products and similar products in the market can also provide useful information. The channels for obtaining such information include direct consumer feedback, information reflected by your retailer, consumer online reviews and information from online stores,
We are required to be in www.SaferProducts.gov Certain reports on health and safety complaints are published on the website.According to the law, companies have the opportunity to comment on these reports.in SaferProducts.gov Registering on will enable us to send you a confidential electronic notice, giving you more time to consider the report and make the response you wish to make.In addition, www.SaferProducts.gov The website is a valuable resource for you to determine what types of hazards the product has when there are reports involving your own products and brands.
Be prepared
Experts have demonstrated that one of the best ways to increase the efficiency of product recall is to prepare a ready-made recall plan and, if necessary, to prepare a ready-made recall plan.
Implement the plan as soon as possible.A well-thought-out and carefully executed plan can save lives, avoid injuries, and will
Minimize your company’s brand and revenue losses.
Click here to log in to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s website on recall programs, and click here to view international voluntary standards (ISO 10393:2013; Consumer Product Recall—Supplier Guide) that can help you make a plan.
Record, record, ensure record
Record your work to meet the requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and follow the recommendations listed above.Product recall occurred
When there is a record, it is convenient for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to work with you to understand your efforts to produce safe consumer goods.
Force and know where the error occurred.Holding these records in itself shows us that you have made a contribution to the production of safe and compliant products.
Reasonable efforts can enable us to implement a successful recall operation with you.Record or comply with consumer product safety
An important proof of the committee’s requirements for regular testing and important changes in testing.The lack of records may lead to whether you
Doubts have been raised about the efforts made to produce safe and compliant products.Complete records also help determine what actions to take to ensure
Absolutely cause conditions for unsafe and non-conforming products.
Challenge yourself to produce consumer goods that are as safe as possible
You should consider the above recommendations when designing and producing your products to meet or exceed the highest product safety standards.
You should exceed the minimum standards to ensure that your products are designed to be the safest possible, use safe raw materials and components, establish a reliable supply chain, and take into account predictable consumer use (and misuse) of products in design and production. Keep in mind that it is often difficult for a product creator to honestly assess potential safety hazards and the ways in which consumers may misuse the product.You can consider hiring an engineer outside the company and/or a fault analysis company to work with you to study possible problems with your
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Potential hazards related to the product.At the very least, you should seek someone with experience in consumer product safety as a “devil spokesperson”
Come and be picky about your ideas and find out possible safety hazards.
Strive to integrate the concept of safety into your company’s culture, including in your company’s policies and procedures, and reflect it in the products you sell to
Consumer products.
For more guidance and best practice information, please refer to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Handbook on Manufacturing Safer Consumer Goods.
If you have more questions about the product safety requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and your product, please contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission
The Small Business Ombudsman of the Council was appointed.
The staff of the Consumer Product Safety Commission is committed to providing accurate, timely and useful information to stakeholders in the business community.
If you have further suggestions on how to improve our work (or find errors), please contact us.
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This document is only used to provide general information, contains only explanations made by CPSC staff, and is only based on
The information currently held by the staff and the law enforcement positions currently held by the staff of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.If something
If the facts change, the interpretation may be changed, or modified or replaced by the committee.This document should not and is not intended to constitute legal advice，
And it has not been reviewed and approved by the committee, and may not represent its views.This document is not intended to replace or repeal any part of federal law
points.
If there is any ambiguity between this document and federal law, federal law will replace this document.The responsibility of the Office of the Inspector General is not to issue legal notices for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, nor to deal with matters that have entered litigation proceedings. The Office of the Inspector General has no authority to extend any laws, regulations, and time limits determined by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, nor to make decisions or legal rulings on behalf of the Commission.Any views expressed in this document may be modified or replaced by the Committee.
