Certification Schedule Risk Management

Product Safety Certification

Percept assists companies in obtaining regulatory safety certification by following a defined and rigorous process designed to remove uncertainty from the certification process.
Formal test agencies simply test and report findings. It is important to understand that their role is not to give advice about mitigation of test failures. Once a failure occurs and the findings are reported, companies are on their own to resolve problems. Then they must resubmit for additional retests. The result increases the cost and risk to critical shipment schedules.

Percept’s process proactively identifies product design issues that impede the successful safety testing of products for certification. The first step is to perform a safety risk assessment. This is a review of critical documentation requirements along with a physical evaluation of the product. Experience compliance expects know products fail certification the first time through because of a lack of proper documentation as often as from failing actual safety testing.

We provide you with a written report that includes mitigation and verification pretests recommendations. Our goal is to help you to understand which safety tests are likely to fail and provide you with a strategy for passage at the formal test agencies. This increases your opportunity to avoid findings by the agencies that results in the need for retests.
Once your products are ready to be sent for formal testing at the certification agency, our engineers work directly with the agencies’ engineers to resolve minor issues that do arise, in order to prevent findings that then causes the safety test process to stop.

Percept helps you to manage the entire safety certification submittal process. We create a certification plan that recommends which formal certification agency is best suited for your product. This takes into consideration the global markets you plan to enter and when. Percept wants you to understand time and cost required to gain certification. This helps you determine the best path based on revenue expectations. Common safety certifications include:

 

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