Location of Safety Warnings
This article discusses the legal and practical issues around the duty to warn and instruct and where to place safety information on the product and/or in the manual.
Product Safety and the Pandemic
The pandemic has brought many changes in the way we do business. For equipment manufacturers, that may equate to big picture shifts related to your supply chain, vendors, and production. Here, let’s explore key considerations to keep in mind for your product safety strategy, warnings, and instructions.
The Development of Proficiency Testing Programme for Electrical and Mechanical Safety Tests
This article explains the development process of a proficiency testing programme that is suitable for electrical and mechanical safety tests. The process for testing the homogeneity and stability of specimens is also discussed.
Product Liability Marketing Defects
The way you market your product can turn an otherwise safely designed product into an unsafe product that causes injury and creates liability for the manufacturer and product seller.
Safety Outside the Box
This article discusses additional requirements that designers and safety professionals may want to consider beyond the base standard for their product based on the environment and user exposure.
Challenges and Directions for Lifecycle Processes Supporting Conformity Assessment of Interoperable Medical Products
This article provides an overview of lifecycle issues for interoperable medical products that are not sufficiently addressed in existing medical device standards and identifies lifecycle concepts from other domains that may be adapted for interoperable medical systems.
Product Liability Litigation and its Effect on Product Safety Regulatory Compliance
Product liability litigation and product safety regulatory compliance are sometimes intertwined, and this can make a bad situation worse.
Illumination Caused Permanent Bodily Injury: Photons Not Taken Lightly
This article outlines the instrumentation and calculations performed to evaluate the severity of the exposure risk to unfiltered artificial light.
The Risk of Post-Sale Safety Improvements
This article presents the legal issues around pre- and post-sale safety improvements in products and provides recommendations to document them.
Product Markings and Labels
Product markings and labels provide information about the product, installation, and use. The markings and labels can also provide warnings to avoid hazardous energy transfer to a body part. The product safety aspects of markings for identification, ratings, functions, connections, and warnings are described.