2. BRAND INT
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3. Product
>> SAFETY

4. social
ACCOUNTABILITY

5. ADVENTURES
IN CORPORATE
CITIZENSHIP

6. AGENDA
OBJECTIVES FOR TODAY INCLUDE:
 Major safety and social compliance legislation
 Headline making news
 What The Image Group is doing to help

7. It’s scary out there.

8. Prop 65

9. WARNING
PROPOSITION 65 COMPLIANCE STATEMENT
IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS
BUSINESS TO WARN ITS CUSTOMERS
AND EMPLOYEES THAT PRODUCTS
SOLD OR USED ON THESE PREMISES
MAY CONTAIN CHEMICALS KNOWN TO
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE
CANCER OR BIRTH DEFECTS.
CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 25249.5 ET SEQ.

10. BOUNTY HUNTER PROVISION:
The attorney, law firm, prosecutor’s office,
or person initiating the lawsuit receives
25 percent of the civil penalties collected.

11. 1000 times
below the level of no observable effect

12. CPSIA
Consumer Product Safety
Improvement Act of 2008

13. CPSIA Added tougher
national regulations
and stringent testing
requirements for
children’s products –
and for certain non-
children’s products

14. IN G
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15. SECTION 108
Defines “children’s product”
as “a consumer product designed
or intended primarily for children
twelve years of age or younger.”

16. In the news...

17. “McDonald’s Recalls Movie
Themed Drinking Glasses Due to
Potential Cadmium Risk”
Press Release, June 4, 2010
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

18. “It’s important to know that CPSC
has said the glassware is not toxic.
There have been no confirmed
cases of illness or injury.”
–McDonald’s

20. “I met workersold, 13
were 14 years
who
years old, 12. Do you
really think Apple
doesn’t know? ”
Transcript: “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”
Public Radio International’s This American Life
originally aired on January 6, 2012

21. 880k
Podcast downloads

22. “
I have difficult news. We’ve
learned that Mike Daisey’s
story about Apple in China –
which we broadcast in
Iraand Producer, January – contained
Host
Glass
This American Life
March 16, 2012 significant fabrications.
We’re retracting the story
because we can’t vouch for
its truth.”

23. “Green Toys has received 10 reports
of wheels and hubcaps detaching or
loosening from the vehicles. There
have been no reports of injuries.”
Press Release, July 31, 2012
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

24. QCA
Quality Certification Alliance

25. Self Assessment + Third-Party Audits =
maintained by Quarterly Audits

26. QCA ACCREDITATION COMPONENTS
Product Safety
Social Accountability
Environmental Stewardship
Quality
Supply Chain Security

27. Distributor Advocacy Council
Distributors who have
demonstrated the strongest
commitment to compliance, and
who use QCA as a key criterion for
selecting preferred suppliers.

28. We’re
“all in”

29. 1 of 15

30. “Product safety and
compliance programs are
about thejourney rather
than the destination.”
–Quality Certification Alliance

31. “It takes 20
years to build a
reputation and
five minutes to
ruin it.”
Warren Buffet

32. View these slides at:
http://www.slideshare.net/TheImageGroup/qca-slides