Product safety-"designing for compliance" a development system for 1/sup st/ time success

For many companies, product safety compliance is an afterthought-once the product has been designed for functional excellence, a compliance engineer tries to retrofit the requirements to the new product. This "band-aid" approach to compliance can cause dramatic increases in product development costs and significant time-to-market delays. "Designing for compliance" is a process that incorporates product safety design principles at all stages of product development. From product concept, through on-going production, and continuing into future engineering change orders. By using this systematic approach to product safety, product developers can design products faster and at a lower cost.