Product Liability Prevention

Product Liability Prevention Resources

Product Safety Organizations

• International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) [link] 
• Society of Product Safety Professionals [link]
• IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society [link]

Product Safety Publications

PLP Seminars

• PLP Seminars Presented by Ken Ross [read]
• Agenda for Ken Ross half-day in-house seminar [read]
• Agenda for Ken Ross full-day in-house seminar [read]
• SPSP/AKD programs in product safety [link]
• University of Wisconsin Annual Product Liability Conference [link]

U.S. Federal Agencies

• CPSC
• CPSC Recall Handbook [read]
• CPSC Recall Checklist [read]
• CPSC Fast Track Recall Program [read]
• CPSC Handbook for Manufacturing Safer Consumer Products [read]
• CPSC's Manufacturer’s Guide to Developing Consumer Product Instructions [read]
• Recall Effectiveness Research (Heiden) [read]
• Regulated Products Handbook [read]
• NHTSA
• NHTSA Recall Compendium [read]
• FDA
• Medical Device Regulatory Assistance [read] 
• Medical Device Recall Assistance [read]
• Write It Right [read]
• FTC
• Writing Readable Warranties [read]
• A Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law [read]

U.S. PLP and Regulatory Compliance Service Providers

• ExpertRECALL (complete recall management, notification and response, product retrieval, compliance and reporting, remedy and resolution) [read]
• ADK Project Resource Group (safety seminars and safety and recall directory) [read]
• Clarion Safety Systems LLC (safety labels) [read]
• Ken Cook Co. (instruction manuals and technical communications) [link]
• Exponent, Inc. (safety analysis, warnings, instructions, expert witnesses) [read]
• design safety engineering (safety engineering, risk assessment) [read]
• Dorris and Associates, Inc. (human factors, warnings, ergonomics, safety consulting) [read]
• Heiden Associates (product safety consulting) - Washington D.C.
• Applied Safety and Ergonomics (safety analysis, warnings, expert witness) [read]
• Eckstine & Associates, Inc. (safety counseling and litigation support on cranes, ag, industrial machinery [read]
• Product Safety Solutions - Dan Levine (safety counseling for chemical products) [link]
• Product Safety Insights - Don Mays (safety counseling) [Link]
  

Canada

• Health Canada Guidance for Mandatory Reporting under CCPSA [read]
• Health Canada Recalls [read]
• McMillan LLC - Lindsay Lorimer (product liability and safety counseling in Canada) [email]

EU

• DTI Product Recall Research - [read]
• Consumer Products in Europe - Corrective Action Guide [read]
• Cooley LLP - Rod Freeman (product liability and safety counseling in EU) [website]
• Product Law Firm - Antoine de Brosses (product liability and safety counseling in France) [website]

Asia-Pacific

• Product Recall Guide, Australia [read]
• The Australian Consumer Law [read]
• Allen & Overy - Eugene Chen (product liability and product safety counseling in China) [email]
• Kim & Chang - Jay Kim (product liability and product safety counseling in Korea) [email]
• Simpson Grierson - Robert Gapes (product liability and safety counseling in New Zealand) [email]