Product Safety Guide for Business Start-ups
Products and services safety is a crucial factor in enterprise. Every business has a product or service to generate sales but all owners must ensure its safety. If you are a business owner, you have to follow the law and protect your customers at all costs. In any case that your firm committed violations that cause severe injury to your consumers or buyers, you will be liable and may face legal charges. This may lead to cancellation of the business permit and permanently banned in implementing the same type of enterprise again. Especially, when the court found any illegal activities and poor management on your part.
What types of products?
This includes any type of products that are designed to consume or use by a customer even if not purposely for them. These products must be safe and approved by the food safety administration. No matter what the product condition, whether it is new, used or recycled, it must be safe. As well as the tools in services that may be risky if not being supervised carefully like fitness gyms, resorts’ swimming pools and the like.
All Supplying Products
Products must be safe before and after putting it on the market. For instance, a supplier decided to make the finished products available for other suppliers who would want to import products. So it is important to have the finished products approved by customs to prevent major violations.
Supplying Products pertain to the exchange commodities between suppliers and manufacturers. They must include its destinations on the contract of product information. The exchange of goods between individuals even if it is as a gift or incentive is considered supplying product.
What do Safe Products mean?
Safe products means it is safe to use or consume without any potential harms or a little level of risk in acceptable manner. Safe products aim to maintain customer protection at a high level and assume its possible unexpected risks that could probably affect them in the future.
Take note that in every business industry, there is a particular consumer act protection and product or service legislation. It entails the detailed mandatory requirements according to the national standard. This encompasses both consumer and commercial goods with varying protocols and norms.
For example, a manufacturer of construction materials supplies several materials to a real estate investor with a purpose of establishing new property investments. This real estate investor supplies some of these materials to a professional home buyer in Charleston to renovate a certain house.
However, the home buyer discovered defective materials that could weaken the property’s foundation and durability that could also harm future homeowners. The lack of inspection of the supplier is a violation since they had not ensured that the supplied products are safe to utilize.
These defective materials must be returned to suppliers and refund the buyers or replaced with a new one. Otherwise, the buyers may sue them in court that may cause the manufacturers to face legal lawsuits. It also includes bankruptcies and business closures.
Product Liability
In the previous example, it proves the liability of all producers, manufacturers and suppliers. This provides adequate rights to buyers or customers to protect themselves from risks that could damage them instantly. Regardless of whether that product was sold to them or not, it is still bound by product liability.
Significance of Compliance
As we have discussed above about products and services safety. You are mandated to comply with the consumers protection and safety standards by customs. The level of compliance required will still depend according to your main business activity. Such as a producer firm, manufacturing plant, distribution and marketing the finished goods to the target buyers.
