Preventing Product Liability Lawsuits and Recalls - New Product Development

Why Should You Attend:

It has become apparent that in today’s marketplace, far too many corporate management teams are focused almost solely on increasing sales—and of course profits—and lastly, if at all, assuring their products are safe and reliable, although they think this is being handled and under control. To further compound the situation, they are also making false assumptions that their employees know what to do with regard to preventing product recalls and product liability lawsuits and are ahead of the curve. As a result, we are faced with ever-growing upward trends in product recall statistics, record-breaking product liability lawsuit verdicts, and a spike in bankruptcies.

It really doesn’t matter if you’re a $5 billion manufacturing company or do $50 million in annual sales; whether you manufacture consumer products, automotive, medical, industrial, or commercial products; or whether you have a legal department or don’t have one—corporations are missing the mark across the board.

This webcast will be very enlightening and educational to members of the management team and will begin the process of pointing manufacturing corporations in the right direction of preventing related problems and becoming more profitable.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Understanding the real design review objective
• Creating the team and the roles of the members
• Tools and programs for management control of the process
• Understanding the role of the product safety review team
• Identifying hazards from a whole different perspective
• The U.S. and international standards for warning label design

Who Will Benefit:

• CEO and corporate executive staff
• The heads of quality, engineering, new product development, product safety, product testing and reliability, sales, purchasing, customer service, manufacturing, and the legal department

Instructor Profile:

Randall Goodden is recognized as a leading expert on product safety and product liability prevention around the world by manufacturing corporations, insurance companies, international television news networks, government agencies, professional associations, and numerous publications. He has taught PS&LP to thousands of manufacturing executives worldwide at his seminars, as well as being brought in-house by some of the largest corporations.

He is the author of the best-selling books “Lawsuit! Reducing the Risk of Product Liability for Manufacturers” (Wiley 2009), “Product Liability Prevention – A Strategic Guide” (Quality Press 2000), and “Preventing & Handling Product Liability” (Marcel Dekker 1995) which have sold thousands of copies worldwide, and have even become course books at universities. In addition, he has authored other legal reference and quality books.

Mr. Goodden has been in manufacturing all his life and for over 25 years he worked as the corporate VP for a large international manufacturer and was in charge of quality, new product development, field services, and litigation management. He has taught his seminars throughout the United States, the UK, Europe, China, as well as Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, and India. His seminars in China have been sponsored and attended by the Chinese government, and he is a keynote speaker at some of the largest conferences and trade shows worldwide. He speaks annually at the ASQ World Conference.

Randall Goodden is the president and founder of the IPSLP – International Product Safety & Liability Prevention Association with over 700 hundred members from 30 countries around the world, and is the chairman of ASQ’s Product Safety & Liability Prevention Division.

Topic Background:

Every year in the U.S. there are over 80,000 product liability lawsuits, and thousands of product recalls. And at the same time, 90% of manufacturing executives surveyed felt their companies and management teams were “Ahead of the curve in delivering safe and reliable products,” when all the statistical trends show just the opposite. In addition, in the last few years we seen some of the highest fines handed out by government agencies because the corporations mishandled product safety issues, and the juries handed out the largest awards to plaintiffs in over a decade.

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