Ensuring Product Safety: Tricks And Traps In AS3806 Compliance

Key Points

• Adopting a risk-based approach minimises non-compliance with product safety standards.
• AS3806 provides guidance for implementing the needed controls that maintain compliance.

In our previous article, we discussed the reasons to implement a product safety compliance program and the benefits it can bring to organisations, including enabling them to claim the section 85 defences and significantly mitigating penalties under the Trade Practices Act. This article will give an overview of AS3806, the Australian Standard for compliance programs, and then examine some common tricks and traps encountered by organisations implementing compliance programs in a product safety context.