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Managing compliance

The current market issue

Competitive advantage and profitability are achieved by striking the right balance between speed to market, risk and return.  Introducing a new product to market and meeting quality, compliance and safety requirements can be daunting. The loss of an opportunity can have a devastating financial effect. Managing product compliance and safety better than your competitors offers a key marketing differentiator that will increase the value of your brand, it also reduces cost and cycle times leading to a significant and sustainable competitive advantage.

With the unrelenting pressure to reduce costs and source new innovative products, organisations are outsourcing manufacturing functions to organisations often based overseas.  In such circumstances managing product quality, safety and ongoing compliance to your specifications and regulatory standards can be challenging.  The effects of not having robust systems for managing product quality, compliance and safety in outsourcing arrangements can range from simple annoyance to catastrophe and ruined brands.

Many organisations cannot afford to have specialised staff on hand to review product quality, compliance and safety.  A better alternative is to partner with StanCert to manage this aspect of business.  StanCert can give you the tools and transfer the knowledge to help you efficiently manage and monitor product quality, safety and compliance enabling you to focus more of your energy on winning market share and driving profitability.

Our goal is to provide you with the most practical, effective and least expensive solution to your quality, safety and regulatory compliance needs.

How StanCert can help

StanCert can help you build and maintain an effective and efficient compliance and safety management system.  We will help you to build in compliance at every stage of your supply chain and business process, from concept design to the manufacturing, distribution and retail.  The key services StanCert offers are listed below.

Standards and regulations compliance health check

A regulation and compliance health check typically lasts about four weeks and is carried out in three simple steps.

An organisation can commission a health check for their products, themselves or their suppliers or licensees. It is also possible to engage StanCert to carry out a subset of the steps listed below.

Health check teams recommend specific projects and actions - providing a targeted report that translates regulatory guidelines into a concrete organisational roadmap complete with cost implications.

1. The first step is a quick scan and prioritisation. The StanCert Team identifies the gaps between the client’s regulatory compliance effort and that of others in its peer group, and through workshops discuss and document the findings.  To make this work move quickly, StanCert brings its knowledge of regulatory compliance implications throughout an organisation. The outcome of Step 1 is a prioritised selection of gaps for detailed analysis in the next phase.
2. The second step is a focused compliance assessment, which uses proprietary tools to show an organisation’s quality, compliance and safety status against requirements in greater detail. This information supports decision making and project tracking.
3. The final step, planning, costs and implementation, produces a summary of the organisation’s compliance and safety status, prioritised projects with suggested actions and cost estimates, and  a list of quick wins. Clients can start acting on the recommendations immediately.

Outsource product safety and compliance assessment

Taking advantage of outsourcing enables organisations to reduce costs and focus their efforts on expanding markets rather than being focused on operational or production issues.

StanCert are aware of the productivity gains from outsourcing and partners with you to offer its specialised skills to maintain product quality, safety and compliance throughout the supply chain. StanCert partners with you to help deliver products that will meet the necessary requirements to ship anywhere in the world, meeting schedules and avoiding costly mistakes. The key areas of expertise include:

• Risk analysis of your suppliers to help you to identify high risk activities that require immediate focus and can have the greatest risk minimisation impact.
• Supplier or licensee monitoring and assessment.
• Assistance with safety design guidance and evaluation.
• Developing test plans and procedures.
• Assistance with commissioning cost effective and authoritative product testing.
• Support with approvals, verification of compliance and certifications.

Development of technical documentation

StanCert assists you in the development of technical and professional documentation tools to offer your clients attractive and comprehensive support. Such documentation includes operating manuals, technical translations, illustrations, animations, product presentations and documentation for industrial operators StanCert is experienced in writing technical documents and technical manuals in a correct, concise and understandable way. Only then will information be conveyed in an efficient manner. This means accurate content combined with clear language use, optimally geared to your target group. This will result in satisfied customers and users.

Creation of product compliance folders

Many organisations often seek expensive and ongoing certification programs to verify and manage product compliance and safety. A viable alternative, especially when there is no formal certification system in place, is to compile a compliance folder.

The compliance folder is simply a folder containing test reports and a self-declaration of conformity and product information. A compliance folder should be held for each product series and all compliance records must be in English.

• StanCert are experts in the preparation and management of such folders and can assist you with the following:
• Preparing a compliance folder.
• Reviewing compliance folders.
• On-site audit of compliance folders. The audit will identify missing or inadequate compliance documentation.
• Ongoing compliance folder management and support.
• Holding of compliance folders for importers and international manufacturers.

Why choose StanCert

StanCert has a proven track record for helping organisations manage product compliance and safety as an enabler to access new markets, increase profitability and reduce cost.

StanCert has led many high profile industry initiatives with Standards Australia and the Australian International Design Awards focused on improving product compliance and safety such as the Product Safety Framework and Product Compliance and Safety Management System. In leading these projects we have collaborated with The ACCC, CHOICE, Target, Coles, Funtastic, NATA, INPAA, Kidsafe, State Regulators and IGC - to name a few.

In most cases the Team from StanCert actually developed the Australian and international standards that underlie regulation related to product safety.

The Team has built institutions in many economies that have responsibility for managing product regulation, standards, compliance and certification of products.

Call StanCert to discuss this service

We invite you to contact us to discuss your requirements or to request further information about our services.  Please call us on +61 2 8721 6434 or email us at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it