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.
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.
8 Jul 2019
Product safety in Australia
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.
2 Mar 2019
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 (https://www.icix.com/) 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.
24 Jun 2017
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
10 May 2017
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
5 Oct 2016
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.
3 May 2016
Radio Interview with Gail Greatorex, 2UE 22 April 2016
Stuart Bocking, morning presenter, Radio 2UE, Sydney,Australia,interviews Gail Greatorex of Product Safety Solutionsabout theIKEA chest of drawers safety issue. This was in relationto several tip-over fatalities in the US. Gail explained thatfurniture tip-overs are a hazard in any home with small children.For furtherinformation see: Furniture tip-overs safety strategy
4 Mar 2016
Button battery risks with small children and pets
Gail Greatorex of Product Safety Solutions interviews
Dr Ruth Barker - Emergency Paediatric Specialist at Mater Children’s Hospital, Brisbane and Director of the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit Dr Barker assisted the Coroner in his investigation
Dr Kirsten Vallmuur - Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q)
Natalie Stewart– QUT CARRS-Q Honours student researching issues associated with button battery safety
25 Jan 2016
Professor Joan Ozanne Smith
In this podcast, Gail Greatorex talks with Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith, Head of the Prevention Research Unit at Monash University's Department of Forensic Medicine. The interview took place at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine where the department is co-located.
20 Aug 2015
Martin Rushton
In this podcast Gail Greatorex talks with Martin Rushton, Principal Advisor for Trading Standards and Product Safety in the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Martin talks about key safety principles and gives some real life examples on how safety considerations can impact business.
3 May 2015
Interview with Gene Rider
Gail Greatorex, Principal Consultant and owner of Product Safety Solutions, Australia, interviews Gene Rider, who explains what is an effective approach to product safety and how businesses can meet the challenge.
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