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Jim Bender

Jim Bender is a senior staff engineer at Intertek. He has more than 40 years of experience in product safety, regulatory compliance, industry standard development, and new product category certifications covering a broad offering of new technologies and is the co-founder and chair of the North Texas IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society.

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Recognized Components and Ethical Compliance Obligations

This paper provides an overview on the importance of ethical obligations to help ensure end-product safety and its certifications effectively address and satisfy component level application considerations. These are known as “Conditions of Acceptability” for most North American certification reports and “Application Considerations” for most European Union certification authority reports.

Avoiding Supply Chain Disruptions of Safety-Critical Recognized Components

End-product manufacturers can help protect against supply chain disruptions that impact the availability of listed or recognized components by proactively identifying suppliers who can provide substitute components that conform with their listing requirements.

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