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To answer your question, typical of the case that most, if not all, of the subscribers of this forum can attest, electronic products are subject to government and industry regulations concerning product safety, electromagnetic noise radiation/immunity and wireless/wired telecommunication. Compliance engineering is a term to describe the engineering activities to ensure that products conform to these regulations. Mostly compliance engineering focuses its attention on published regulatory and industry standards, ensuring that products are in compliance with those regulations. Regulatory standards are those adopted by national governments and are almost exclusively mandatory. Industry standards (Bluetooth, GSM, UMTS, Wibree, RS-xxx, EIA/TIA, etc.) are those standards where compliance may be needed but are not legally mandatory. And in some instances, such as the EU and the US, there is a need to review and interpret government legislation such as the EU’s Directives and the US’s Code of Federal Regulations. In that aspect, compliance engineering does mimic the legal profession. In the limited amount of time that I have today, I wanted to quickly answer your question in a nutshell and hope that the above has adequately answered your question. And, if anyone cares to interject, add or correct the above in any way, please do. Best regards, Ron Pickard [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: Scott Xe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 7:42 AM To: Pickard, Ron; 'Nick Williams' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Electrical product recall Hi Ron, Thanks for your useful information and helpful guidance. What is a compliance engineer? Is it responsible for ensuring the products in compliance with all legal requirements? Scott From: Pickard, Ron [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 2009年1月13日 03:54 AM To: Nick Williams; Scott Xe Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Electrical product recall Nick, The operational guidelines link for businesses (for dangerous consumer products) to which you refer is at: htt ://ec.europa.eu/consumers/safety/rapex/guidelines_business_en.htm. It's stated to be new there, but the actual linked document is dated 2004, so I guess we’ll have to wait for the revised edition. Scott, As others from the hoards of us legally unwashed have given sound advice and good references for your company to develop a recall plan, the recall plan that your company develops may likely have to pass scrutiny with your legal dept/management and some likely legal/contractual issues. Also, googling “safety recall plan” should give you several links for you to understand what a recall plan will look like and how to develop one. I hope you find this useful, but please note that I am a compliance engineer and in no way resemble a lawyer, attorney, barrister, counsel(or), legal eagle, ambulance chaser, etc, etc. Therefore, the above is not legal advice and should not be considered as such. If it was, I would be charging you at least $500/hr (with a retainer). Best regards, Ron Pickard [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Williams Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 1:06 PM To: Scott Xe Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Electrical product recall There is information at the following sites which will be of assistance to you: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/safety/rapex/index_en.htm http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/consume s/Safety/products/unsafe-notification/index.html Somewhere in this lot there is a guidance document which provides a basis for an assessment of whether a recall is necessary. I can send you a copy if you cannot find it in the links on the above pages. At a seminar in November last year, we were told that this guidance is being revised and a new model for assessment has been agreed. Heaven only knows if/when this might make it out into the public domain. Nick. At 00:45 +0800 13/1/09, Scott Xe wrote: >It is a quite common terms in the industry and mostly related to >safety hazard. We would like to establish a process for the product >recall. Is there any important rules or guidance to follow for a >meaningful and absolutely necessary recall? > >Thanks and regards, > >Scott >- >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society >emc-pstc discussion list. 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