In message <p0624081ac86dae3619cc@[192.168.1.43]>, dated Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Nick Williams <nick.willi...@conformance.co.uk> writes:
>Having said that, I would also tend to agree with the view that for >volume consumer products there is often value in making someone with a >sales role take responsibility for the Declaration since it tends to >make them realise that there is more to business than simply shifting >product to customers at the maximum rate. It would be difficult to find anyone in Sales or Marketing in many companies who has enough technical insight to know whether to sign off or not, and many would be more motivated by 'time to market' issues. However, I do think that Marketing and Sales should understand that the costs of compliance with Directives and other governmental regulations are not engineering development costs but costs incurred for being present in the market. In that sense, they resemble advertising and other publicity costs, beside which they are usually insignificant. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK I should be disillusioned, but it's not worth the effort. But I support unbloated email http://www.asciiribbon.org/ - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@socal.rr.com> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
