Training and Consultancy Services from SGS

Training and Consultancy Services from SGS Consumer Testing Services

SGS Consumer Testing Services (CTS) provides support to retailers, importers and manufacturers throughout the retail supply chain and throughout the product life cycle.

With consumer expectations and product safety requirements becoming ever more complex, SGS CTS can provide the support necessary to ensure the delivery of safe, compliant product.  These services include testing, product inspection, process assessment and technical assistance, available throughout the SGS international network.

SGS CTS can harness these skills to deliver timely, cost-effective solutions to its clients’ training requirements.  Whether the challenge is to increase the technical understanding of specific product safety issues, raise awareness of new regulatory standards or ensure the dissemination of the new supplier codes of practice, SGS CTS can help.

Our trainers are drawn from our unique network of experts and cover all our key areas of activity, including textiles, toys/hardlines, electrical/electronic products and food production.

Mostly delivered on an in-company basis, our courses ensure focus and confidentiality to our clients and are designed for our clients from scratch.  Many can also be tailored to include live demonstrations at our Bradford and Durham testing facilities. We have also pioneered the use of our new e-learning tool to deliver global programmes in the most cost-effective way.

Some of the programmes delivered recently include:

Textiles:

• an introduction to fabric testing
• an introduction to upholstery testing
• flammability testing

Toys/Hardlines:

• managing a product recall
• understanding CE regulations for personal protective equipment
• an introduction to toy testing
• technical file for CE marking

Electrical/Electronic:

• cost-effective LVD compliance
• automotive EMC and security approvals
• understanding CE regulations for medical devices
• designing for compliance with the Medical Devices Directive

Food

• understanding the BRC/IOP Food Packaging Standard
• HACCP implementation and audit
• complying with codes of conduct

Talk to us about your requirement and we can develop the solution that fits.

Total Safety Management Programme
SGS CTS has recently launched the “Total Safety Management Programme”, a new approach to ensuring product safety from concept to delivery and disposal.

Working throughout the product lifecycle, the Total Safety Management Programme (illustrated on the facing page) ensures relevant safety and regulatory issues are addressed and can reduce lead times from design to delivery.

Harnessing the global resources of SGS through a single project manager, the Total Safety Management

Programme brings in those elements necessary to make your project a success. Through early intervention, the costs of design failures can be avoided and the effective application of testing and inspection routines at later stages ensures that delivered product meets the original design.

For further information on how the Total Safety Management Programme can work for your business, please phone Lee Ellis on 01274-760400.