Community Forum – How do you handle compliance?

The laws, rules, and regulations of the markets we play in are constantly changing.  How does your R&D team and greater organization handle this work load?  Are certain functional groups responsible for specific compliance and product stewardship work streams?

7. Do you have a dashboard that is communicated to upper management related to compliance issues? If yes, what items are       addressed?

• Yes, plants audited, number of letters of guaranty provided, number of new raw materials reviewed.
• No, but we have routine (quarterly) executive updates.
• Emissions, water use
• Only Safety and Environmental
• Yes, it includes # of products for a particular compliance mandate (such as ROHS) and indicates % that comply, % that don’t comply and % that are unknown and require investigation.
• No (two responses)

8.  In the last five years, how many R&D projects have you initiated based off of new rules, laws, and regulations?

• 50
• > 10
• At least 2
• At least 10
• Many, mostly small adaptation projects to move existing products into compliance of updated or new standards
• > 6

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