STATEMENT
OF POLICY
Our
company has various responsibilities under the Consumer Product Safety
Improvement Act (CPSIA) for ensuring children’s products meet the requirements
of the CPSIA.
Testing
and certification of children’s products are important parts of the process of
compliance. By law, we must not apply undue influence on what the law calls
“third party conformity assessment bodies” which are the testing laboratories
we use to conduct the testing of those children’s products, to produce
favorable testing results for us.
The
law does not provide a definition of “undue influence.” It is our company’s
policy that any action or statement that undermines the credibility and
validity of the testing process used for the certification of children’s
products is undue influence. If you have any doubt, report it.
All
reported incidents of possible undue influence will be promptly and fully
investigated.
TRAINING
It
is our company’s policy that we will train all employees who interact with
testing laboratories to make certain no one engages in actions or makes
statements that will be considered undue influence. If we change our undue
influence policy, we are committed to retraining all employees regarding those
changes. In accordance with the
requirements imposed upon us by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC),
all employees who are trained will be required to sign a statement attesting to
their training attendance.
PROCEDURE
If
you witness or are aware of what you believe is an incident of undue influence,
it is your responsibility to report it. Every
effort will be made to keep a report confidential, but remember, all of us have
the responsibility to report undue influence, even though it may be difficult
or uncomfortable to do so. Further, be assured, we will not tolerate any
retaliation against you for reporting any incident or participating or
cooperating with any investigation of an undue influence report. You should report it to your immediate
supervisor. If you are uncomfortable with reporting it to your supervisor for
whatever reason (for example, that supervisor is involved in the incident of
possible undue influence), Betsy Socci, Owner,
bsocci@artistictoy.com is the designated individual in our company for
investigating any undue influence. You may also report an incident to any
officer of the company if you feel that is the best course of action.
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