Independent guide
Prevent unsafe products reaching the market, and catch the ones that slip through
The Safety File is an independent desk for preventive product safety, written for manufacturers, importers, distributors and marketplace sellers. It asks one question, file by file: what must be done to make, document and keep this product safe and compliant?
That is deliberately different from product liability, which asks what happens when a defective product causes damage and who may be liable. This site stays on the preventive side: the rule, the operator, the hazard, the assessment, the testing, the documentation, the label, the traceability, the incident, the corrective action, and the evidence.
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How this desk works
How a safety file is built
Three rules. First, no invented numbers and no compliance promises: this site publishes no case studies of its own and never says a particular product complies, because a guide cannot inspect a product it has never seen. Where a number appears, it comes from an official source, is attributed, and carries the date it was checked; worked examples use round numbers and are labelled illustrations. Second, the operator split is kept explicit throughout, because a manufacturer duty, an importer duty and a marketplace duty are different duties, and merging them is how files go wrong. Third, corrections are published, not buried: the corrections page records what changed and why. The desk's position throughout: a product is not safe because a guide says so, it is safe because the hazards were found, the risks were assessed, the evidence was kept, and the file can be checked.
