1. Need For Developing Safety Process Criteria for Innovative Products
2. Innovative Products and/or Innovation of Existing Products
3. Why a Process Standard?.
4. Existing Standards for Innovative Products (e.g. ISO, EN)
5. Best Approach to Organize and Manage Development of the Standard Practice
6. Interest in Participation
7. Timing & Next Steps
Background Information:
1. The consumer product environment has changed! To remain competitive, innovative products are disrupting and replacing entire categories of products with new categories.
2. Product safety industry relies upon the available regulations, standards, knowledge bases and processes that often do not exist for new product categories.
3. Although expertise and data concerning the safe design of innovative products and features does exist; we have an opportunity to develop a robust standard practice for accessing and using available expertise and data to developed product safety criteria for innovative products.
4. During the “Safety Innovation: Practical Tips for the Marketplace” panel at ICPHSO’s 25th Annual Symposium, about 90% of the audience responded that they would benefit from a safety process standard for innovative products and features. Panelists from CPSC, Health Canada and Industry indicated that such a safety process standard could benefit the consumer product safety community.
5. Building upon the interest demonstrated at the 2018 Annual Symposium, we will explore opportunities to develop a robust safety process standard, focused on alignment and stakeholder consensus.
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