Re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-29 Thread Egon H. Varju
On 28/8/96 Art Kampmeier wrote: >Egon, >Thanks for your reply. Easy on us agents, huh? No, no. No slight intended on non-PEs in general or agents in particular. Just thought I'd detected a bit of PE-envy (a Freudian slip?) :-) Egon PS: You are quite right; a PE per se doesn't completely gu

Re[3]: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-29 Thread Cortland . Richmond-CC
A few additional comments: Art Kampmeier: >- A four year college degree in engineering? > Product Safety is only a very small portion of the > curriculum. "Egon H. Varju" 8/28/96: ~Actually, four years is not enough. Most fresh engineering graduates are quite ~useless t

Re: re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-28 Thread Egon H. Varju
On 28/8/1996 Art Kampmeier wrote: >- A four year college degree in engineering? > Product Safety is only a very small portion of the > curriculum. Actually, four years is not enough. Most fresh engineering graduates are quite useless to the company that hires them. It takes another few year

re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-28 Thread a-pex
From: a-...@tcp-ip.or.jp Subject: re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel Thanks for all of the replies so far. While my first letter mentioned qualifying product safety personnel during an assessment, let's forget about that. It was a poor choice of words and the situation

Re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-28 Thread Dan Teninty
Bravo Rich !! I don't think I could have crafted a better answer in two weeks of wordsmithing. On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:14:00 -0700 Rich Nute wrote: > > > > Art Kampmeier and Gabriel Roy raise some interesting questions regarding > selection, qualification, and evaluation of the safety p

Re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-28 Thread Rich Nute
Art Kampmeier and Gabriel Roy raise some interesting questions regarding selection, qualification, and evaluation of the safety professional. Unfortunately, I think they both missed the basic question: What do you want your safety professional to do? That is, what is his output? If you don't

Re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-28 Thread rene
On 27 Aug 1996, Victor L. Boersma wrote: > When I left the Netherlands many years ago, they certified > EVERYBODY. Our milkman had to go to school for 4 years, so he > could answer questions about the milkfat content of anyone of > his products. (He also was expert on how to care for the big

Re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-27 Thread Victor L. Boersma
When I left the Netherlands many years ago, they certified EVERYBODY. Our milkman had to go to school for 4 years, so he could answer questions about the milkfat content of anyone of his products. (He also was expert on how to care for the big working dog, that helped him pull the milk cart).

Re: Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-27 Thread Gabriel Roy/HNS
An interesting question, "How does one know that their product safety personel are qualified". I do not believe that a certificate from an independent body is the answer. Do the assessors also ask the same question of other personel in the organization such as managers, vice presidents, engin

Certification of Product Safety Personnel

1996-08-27 Thread a-pex
We are looking for ways to qualify our Personnel for product safety. As the largest independent agent in Japan, we have our own in-house training set up, which we believe is effective in training our personnel. However, when it comes down to assessment time, the topic "How do you know they are