GPSR Risk Assessment Service

GPSR (General Product Safety Regulation) is a regulation aimed at ensuring product safety, particularly in the European market. Its core purpose is to protect consumers from the hazards of unsafe products and ensure that products circulating in the market meet certain safety standards.

1) What are the requirements for GPSR compliance?

GPRS requires ensuring the safety of products when sold in the market, mainly including the following aspects:

Risk assessment: Conduct a comprehensive risk assessment of the product to identify potential safety hazards.

Compliance with safety standards: Ensuring that products comply with relevant safety standards and regulatory requirements.

Appropriate testing and validation: Conduct necessary product testing to ensure compliance with safety requirements. This may include laboratory testing and certification.

Product labels and instructions: Ensure that there are clear labels on the product, providing necessary usage instructions and safety warnings. Security warnings usually require multilingual attachment, and the language used to attach security information depends on the site opened by the seller on Amazon.

Eliminating non compliant products: If products that do not meet safety standards are found, necessary measures must be taken, such as recall or correction.

2) Why is GPSR risk assessment so important?

GPSR risk assessment is a crucial step in ensuring the legal sale of products in the European market and protecting consumer safety. Through risk assessment, manufacturers can identify potential safety risks and take appropriate measures to reduce them, thereby ensuring the safety and compliance of their products.

3) How to conduct GPSR risk assessment?

The steps and contents of GPSR risk assessment:

Product feature evaluation

Basic feature assessment: including product design features (such as safety of structural design, rationality of material selection, appropriateness of size specifications, etc.), technical features (such as safety of functional implementation, reliability of operational control, etc.), and material composition analysis (such as material toxicity assessment, compliance with chemical substance restrictions, etc.).

Usage cycle assessment: Consider the expected service life of the product, durability of key components, aging characteristics, and scrap standards. At the same time, it is necessary to evaluate the safety during use, such as first-time use safety requirements, daily use safety guarantees, and misuse risk prevention.

Product interoperability assessment

Product combination usage evaluation: Identify possible combination usage scenarios, analyze the safety impact of combination usage, and evaluate the new risks brought by the combination. At the same time, establish restrictions and safety recommendations for combination use.

External impact assessment: Consider the impact of environmental factors on product safety, such as temperature, humidity, electromagnetic compatibility, etc.

Product Information and Display Evaluation

Identification information assessment: Ensure the completeness of product identification, accuracy of manufacturer information, and availability of product traceability information. At the same time, evaluate the standardization of certification marks and the clarity of batch numbers.

Assessment of usage information: Evaluate the completeness, clarity of language, and accuracy of illustrations in the user manual. In addition, it is necessary to ensure the timely dissemination, accessibility, and updating of security information.

Risk assessment methods

Adopt appropriate risk assessment tools and methods, such as FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), FTA (Fault Tree Analysis), HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Analysis), etc. Through these tools and methods, identify potential risk points and assess the probability of risk occurrence and the severity of harm.

Risk control measures

Develop risk control measures based on the results of risk assessment. These measures may include improving product design, optimizing production processes, and strengthening quality control. At the same time, it is necessary to consider the acceptability of residual risks and develop corresponding monitoring and emergency plans.

When conducting GPSR risk assessment, manufacturers should comprehensively consider product characteristics, service life, interoperability, and information and display aspects. At the same time, appropriate risk assessment tools and methods should be used for risk identification, evaluation, and control. In addition, manufacturers need to ensure product traceability and prepare and maintain relevant technical documentation to demonstrate product compliance. For importers and distributors, they also need to bear certain responsibilities to ensure the safety of the products they sell.