Interview with Matt Smith, President and Founder of supply chain transparency company ICIX
How do you know what’s in your products? Which companies are supplying the component parts? Who’s provided them with the raw materials?…
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How will technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) impact consumer product safety? The future is rushing towards us and we may need a new frame of reference.
There’s plenty of attention on this issue
and many minds are exercised.…
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Back in 2015 I wrote that injuries from children ingesting button batteries is the most challenging product safety problem I know of. Some good work has gone into managing the problem since then, but serious injuries are still happening…
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On 13 July 2018, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chair, Rod Sims, delivered a speech at the 2018 Giblin Lecture on the poor behaviours the ACCC has seen from companies.
This is an edited extract of Mr Sims’ speech, with…
“The regulation takes effect on 1 January.”
“So, who will be at work to implement this? Or to enforce it?”
and
“What work is needed during December to gear up for implementation?”
1…
Last year I attended one of the rare product safety seminars held in Australia. At that event, participants were tasked with identifying ways product safety practitioners can work effectively in a competitive commercial environment. Contrary…
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Staff working in consumer product safety have to apply complex technical standards to a vast range of products – toys, nursery products, cookware, car jacks, electrical appliances and so on.
They need to understand and work with legislative…
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Record fines for breaching the product safety laws have been ordered in the Federal Court. Findings showed Thermomix's clear disregard for consumer safety and the law. Well done to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for taking…
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has raised the profile of product safety over the past month. Following its work on the massive compulsory recall of Takata airbags, the ACCC has taken some key steps to promote the cause…
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We all want to feel assured our kettles will hold themselves together when we're making a nice cup of tea. A handle coming away from a kettle full of scalding hot water is an obvious hazard - scald injuries can be very serious.
There…
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Product safety podcast - Interview with Matthew Smith
IoT product safety - Work in progress
Button batteries - more action needed
Companies behaving badly? - Product safety
Regulation commencement dates
Paradigm shift needed for product safety in Australia
Product safety training
Disregard for consumer safety and the law
ACCC on product safety - policy and priorities
Is your electric kettle safe? A lesson for all product suppliers