Children's nightwear standard

Children’s Nightwear Standard Update

After a long wait there is now some movement toward a new mandatory children’s nightwear standard. New Zealand For those who supply children’s nightwear to New Zealand, a discussion paper has been released. The paper sets out proposed…
Gene Rider, Rider Technologies

Product safety podcast – Interview with Gene Rider

In this first podcast, Gail Greatorex of Product Safety Solutions talks to long-time product safety practitioner and champion Mr Gene Rider of Rider Technologies, USA. This is a valuable resource for anyone trying to understand how product…
Product safety checklist

How do I make sure my products are safe?

Product Safety - A Managers Checklist Whether you’re designing, manufacturing, importing or selling consumer products, you have to grapple with the question – How do I make sure my products are safe? Some of the grappling is with the finer…

A faulty 3D printed gun – who’s responsible?

3D printing safety issues exposed on TV’s The Good Wife A man downloads the design for a plastic pistol from the internet. He then uses his 3D printer to make a gun from the design specifications. When he takes it to the indoor shooting…

3D Printing Presentation ICPHSO 2015

The International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organisation (ICPHSO) Annual Meeting and Symposium, 2015, Orlando, Florida 3 d printing and product safety from ProductSafetySolutions Transcript 1. Interactive session Building…

The Qantas Magnetic Toy Case – Interview with Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson was a key witness in the Qantas case. After Consumer Affairs Victoria successfully ran court action against Qantas and its supplier Alpha, I visited key witness Ian to talk to him about what happened. In this interview, Ian…

3D Printing Product Safety Infographic

This infographic shows how 3D printing will change the consumer product market and some of the impacts it will have on product safety. This subject is examined in detail in our White Paper: 3D Printing and Consumer Product Safety. You can…

Qantas and the Banned Magnet Toys

 Qantas and its duty free supplier fined for selling banned toys Perhaps the last place you would expect banned toy magnets to be on sale is on an aeroplane. But that’s what happened in 2013 and both Qantas and its duty free supplier,…
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3D printing and product safety

What will 3D printing of consumer goods mean for product safety? Imagine these possibilities - Manufacture your own plastic toys from yours or someone else’s designs – for your kids to play with, or to create your own little retail…

A new initiative in children’s safety

Why would you need a guide to making clothing safe? Sometimes it’s hard to envisage what can cause children’s injuries. It’s not until you experience it with your own children or hear of an incident that you realise there might…