Product Safety Solutions's Podcast Gail Greatorex
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These Podcasts delve deep into a range of topics on consumer product safety, with Gail Greatorex interviewing specialists within the field.
If you are a manufacturer, importer, wholesaler or retailer, then product safety is part and parcel of your business success. Understanding the topic may help you avoid the cost involved in product recalls, supplying unsafe products or services that may actually harm consumers, fines or damage to your reputation.
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Graeme Samuel of Dementia Australia on living with dementia
Graeme Samuel AC, among his many roles, is a Professorial Fellow in Monash University’s Business School and School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine. I worked at the ACCC when Graeme was Chair. Since 2014 he has held the position of Chair of Dementia Australia, the national peak body for people impacted by dementia. As an advocate of good design, I was keen to hear about how products and environments can be designed to meet the needs of people living with dementia. Before we got to that, Graeme explained a lot about different types of dementia and their effects.
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Product safety in Australia - panel discussion
A recording of the product safety panel at the 2019 national consumer congress.
The session is moderated by the Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Three leading commentators, including Product Safety Solutions’ Gail Greatorex, offer insights into the state of product safety in Australia. -
Gail Greatorex interviews Matt Smith of ICIX
How do you know what’s in your products? Which companies are supplying the component parts? Who’s provided them with the raw materials? Have independent checks been done along the way? How can you manage the myriad actions and transactions that go into your product?
ICIX is a global company that enables transparency throughout the supply chain.
In this interview, Matt explains the value of whole-of-system transparency using data systems, compared with product traceability. -
Professor David Schwebel interviewed by Gail Greatorex
We all share responsibility to keep children safe.
In this podcast Gail Greatorex of Product Safety Solutions in Melbourne, Australia talks with David Schwebel, Professor of Psychology, and Associate Dean for Research in the Sciences at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
David begins by talking about a series of tragic toddler deaths and how his research led to important changes in the design of a product.
David and Gail then discuss the need to think about how children perceive and interact with products.
David also talks about work he has done on the vigilance of swimming pool guards, and how this has lessons for supervision in other activities.
A transcript of the interview and links to research mentioned in the podcast are available at www.productsafetysolutions.com.au -
Jeremy Opperer interviewed on product safety compliance
Gail Greatorex talks with Dr Jeremy Opperer, Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering at American engineering and scientific consulting firm, Exponent
Gail interviewed Jeremy at the International Product Safety Week in Brussels November 2016 and discusses how he approaches product safety compliance and how he would conduct a safety assessment on a clients’ products.
Topics include:
Addressing the safety issues for innovative products where little guidance is available with no historical injury data, and where standards may not apply. How the Internet of Things may affect future product safety issues Factoring safety into product design Managing risk in consumer product safety Communicating safety or recall messages, especially to millenials -
Product safety podcast - Interview with Tim Wain
Gail Greatorex talks with Tim Wain, who’s had a long association with product safety in the infant and children’s product field. Tim now runs Australia’s Pregnancy Babies and Children’s Expo.
In the first part, Tim talks about how the Expo provides both an avenue to educate parents on product safety, and a means to learn about consumer behaviour patterns at a pivotal time in their lives.
In the latter part, Tim and Gail talk about suppliers’ attitude to product safety and whether their first response is still to blame users when injuries happen.