Are you familiar with the GPSR, the regulations surrounding consumer product safety?

On Dec. 13, 2024, the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) will replace the current General Product Safety Directive (GPSD).

The GPSR ensures that all non-food consumer products on the EU market are safe and imposes various obligations on companies to ensure this. This provides a safety net for products or risks not covered by other EU legislation. As a result, EU consumers are always protected from unsafe products.

The main objectives of the GPSR are:

• Ensuring that only safe products are made available to consumers.
• Imposing responsibilities on manufacturers, agents, importers and distributors to market only safe products.
• Establishing requirements applicable to fulfillment service providers and online marketplaces.
• Providing a framework for market surveillance authorities to monitor and enforce product safety requirements.
• Establish procedures for the rapid exchange of information on unsafe products between EU member states and the recall of dangerous products.

What's new at the GSPR?

• Heightened requirements for precautions to be taken regarding product safety.
• The risk assessment of products is extensive.
• Specific product safety obligations for both market participants and online marketplace providers.
• Product traceability requirements have been tightened.
• The process surrounding the recall of unsafe products has been defined more specifically with reinforced rules for market surveillance.

Do you want to be well prepared for the new regulations GPSR?

In the General Product Safety training you will learn how to ensure product safety in your organization. You know what your role is in the process and what your responsibilities are. In addition, you will learn how to handle complaints about products and what possible corrective measures are involved.

You will learn, among other things:

• Establish a quality assurance system in the organization;
• Determine essential safety requirements for products;
• Do sampling and inspections;
• Recording and handling complaints;
• Making a risk analysis based on a complaint.

Want to know more?

Bekijk de trainingspagina algemene productveiligheid voor de e-learning en/of Productveiligheid non-food producten voor de klassikale training. Je kan ook contact met ons op nemen via info@precongroup.com, NL +31 (0)30 65 66 010 of BE +32 (0)3 616 08 69.