Almost everyone is familiar with the term “recall” – most people know what it means and many have already been affected themselves. But what exactly is that? In principle, every company that launches any products on the market also has a responsibility to ensure that users or third parties are not put at risk. And…
“Product recalls are becoming so expensive thanks to the new Product Safety Regulation that every single one could mean our bankruptcy!” – But is that really the case? Regulation (EU) 2023/988 has been in force since 06/2023 Regulation (EU) 2023/988 (“General Product Safety Regulation – “GSPR”) has been in force since 06/2023 and must be…
A product recall – what does that mean? Almost everyone is familiar with the term “recall” – most people know what it means and many have already been affected themselves. But what exactly is that? In principle, every company that launches any products on the market also has a responsibility to ensure that users or…
“Product recalls are becoming so expensive thanks to the new product safety regulation that each one could mean our bankruptcy!”
This assessment is currently increasingly encountered in exchanges with colleagues from the industry or in research on the Internet. But are the innovations of the Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988 really so drastic?
Vision Zero. Originally developed in Sweden, it is now the talk of the world – even the EU wants to reduce the number of traffic fatalities to zero by 2050. The basic maxim is: life is not negotiable. But how do you get to that goal, given that there will be more than 20,000 road…
As PSCR, you are the central node in the company when it comes to product safety (including product liability) and product conformity.
This means that you bear a high level of responsibility, because when it comes to liability, the authorities can’t take a joke.
The importance of informal exchange in training – our expert panel What ensures learning success in training and workshops? A competent and experienced trainer is undoubtedly an important factor to consolidate knowledge during a training. But what else can help participants better internalize what they have learned? In this blog post, we would like to…
Due to many restructurings in a short period of time, the CoP division lost its entire team. Since CoP (Conformity of Production) is a legal requirement and gaps in the evidence can have fatal consequences – even many years, even decades later, the person responsible for CoP contacted us with a request for support.
What happened? It was about components on trucks. Through structured market surveillance, a customer had discovered that there were defects in a competitor’s product that led to accidents. Our customer then transferred this error pattern to his own product and checked whether it would also be conceivable for him. Via a well-founded risk assessment, he…
The market surveillance authority was already involved and a recall was ordered because a supposed product defect was revealed in an accident.
Under the correct state of the law, no recall should have been ordered at all.
If we had not discovered this error, the company would have had to carry out an expensive and time-consuming recall, which was not “legal” at all. We were able to avert the recall!
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