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[US Embassy] Consumer Product Safety Seminar (August 25th)

2016.07.26

Consumer Product Safety:

Top Reasons Your Products for Export Could Be Stopped at U.S. Ports

 

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Korean Consumer Agency

 

8:00-13:00, August 25th, 2016

 

Sheraton Seoul Palace Gangnam Hotel

63-1 Banpo-dong Socho-Gu, Seoul

 

SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION IS PROVIDED

 

<< For RSVP >>

Please contact Ms. Sookyung Park (043-880-5652, skypark@kca.go.kr?) by Friday, August 5th 

 

 

Tentative Agenda:

 

Time

 

8:30-9:00

Guest Arrival/Registration

9:00-9:15

Welcome and Introduction

Jacob Miller, Regional Product Safety Attach?, Asia Pacific, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission  

 

Korean Consumer Agency

 

8:45-10:30

Session 1: U.S. and Korean General Safety Requirements for Consumer Products

9:15-9:35

Korean Legal System for Consumer Product Safety

Speakers: KCA representative, KATS representative

9:35-10:05

How to Ensure Your Products for Export to the U.S. Market Meet U.S. Requirements?

What do we do to screen out non-compliant products?

·         Market Surveillance

·         Retail Surveillance

·         Internet Surveillance

·         Import Surveillance

·         Risk Assessment

What do you need to do to ensure that your products heading for the United States meet U.S. requirements?

·         Are they children’s products?

·         Are they regulated products?

·         Have they been tested and certified?

·         Do they have tracking label?

Speaker: Jacob Miller, Regional Product Safety Attach?, Asia Pacific, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

10:05-10:15

CPSC Video I:  Regulatory Robot

10:15-10:30

Panel Discussion:

Moderator: Jung Yong Park, Director of Dept. of Consumer Safety

Speakers: Moon Sik Kim, representative of Korea Toy Industry Cooperative; Doo Hyun Kim, vice president of The Korean Society of Safety; Eun Suk Moon, Chair of ISO COPOLCO Product Safety WG

10:30-10:35

Question and Answer

10:35-12:00

Session 2: Design Safe Products for Consumers

10:35-10:55

How to Eliminate Hazards for Your Products?

·        Design safe products

·        Understand and meet your voluntary standards

·        Best practice

Speaker: Jacob Miller, Regional Product Safety Attach?, Asia Pacific, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

10:55-11:05

CPSC Video II:  Safety Tips for Consumer Product Suppliers: Finger Injuries

11:05-11:25

How Can We Help You?

·         Online product safety information in foreign languages: How to navigate CPSC foreign language website?

·         Resources in multimedia

Speaker: Sylvia Chen, Program Manager for East Asia and Pacific, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

11:25-11:40

Panel Discussion:

Moderator: Jung Yong Park, Director of Dept. of Consumer Safety

Speakers: Phil Yeon Kang, Korean Institution of Design Promotion; Industrial design experts(To be decided) ; You Chon Oh, Director of Product Safety Information Div., KATS

11:40-11:45

Question and Answer

11:45-12:10

Break

12:10-13:00

Session 3: Challenges and Expectations

12:10-12:20

As a government officer, what are the recent challenges of consumer safety system and ideal concept for future safety system?

·         Any weakness or blind spots of current system of consumer safety

·         Future plan to improve consumer safety :

Speakers: Sylvia Chen or Jacob Miller

12:20-12:35

Panel Discussion

Moderators: Jacob Miller and Sylvia Chen

12:35-12:50

Question and Answer

12:50-13:00

Closing