All, There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society meeting on Wednesday, January 26, at EMC Corporation's Customer Briefing Center at 42 South Street in Hopkinton, MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Doug Geralde, Director of CSA’s Corporate Audits and Investigations Group, will be presenting this month’s technical topic concerning CSA’s trademark anti-counterfeiting efforts. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as NPSS membership or advanced notice is not required.
The general focus of Doug’s presentation will be to briefly describe CSA and then using power point slides detail several investigative cases involving counterfeit safety products. This will be followed by a description of the many initiatives that CSA International is doing to combat this growing problem, as well as what people should be on the look out for, to ensure they are not the victims of counterfeit products. Doug Geralde is the Director of CSA’s Corporate Audits and Investigations Group. Doug joined CSA in 1977 and is member of CSA’s Senior Management team. He currently heads up the CSA’s corporate group of Investigators, who follow up on product field incidents. Doug has conducted many investigations in his 24 years in the Audits and Investigations Group. He has worked with various Electrical Regulatory Authorities, Police and Fire Departments throughout North America, Europe and in the Far East. He has attended many inquests and appeared in court as an expert witness on behalf of CSA. Doug has also conducted system and Quality Assurance audits on manufacturing facilities and CSA offices around the world. Under his affiliations, Doug was the 2001 President of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors (IAEI). Doug is currently the IAEI VP International Affairs, member of the Global Affairs Committee and the Canadian Section Representative of the IAEI Education Committee. He is also a member on the Canadian Council of Fire Marshal & Fire Commissioners, Chair of the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Group for the Canadian Advisory Council on Electrical Safety and is an active member of the International Association of Arson Investigators. Doug through his work in the investigation area is also a Special Advisor to the Chief Coroners and Chief Medical Examiners of Canada. Most recently he has been appointed Chair of the International Committee at IACC, which is the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition based in Washington D.C. He has worked with the various Police organizations including FBI, RCMP and INTERPOL as part of CSA’s growing strategies to combat global counterfeiting problems. If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Paul Smith, our meeting scheduler, by email at [email protected]. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2005 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2005_Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South take exit 21B to West Main Street. Counting the first traffic light as the traffic light at the off ramp >from Route 495 South. At the second traffic light, turn left on to South Street (Note: This is on South direction side of Route 495). EMC Corporation is the second driveway on the right. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 111 Locke Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 786-7500 Main (508) 480-6332 Fax [email protected] email This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Mcantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
