API At 2024 ICPHSO Annual Meeting and Training Symposium

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API At 2024 ICPHSO Annual Meeting and Training Symposium

API At 2024 ICPHSO Symposium

API is excited to be participating at 2024 ICPHSO Annual Meeting and Training Symposium. The symposium will take place on February 19-22, 2024 in Orlando. The 4-day Symposium provides opportunities for global product safety professionals to learn about and discuss relevant product safety issues, and further enhance the safety of consumer products throughout the world.

Visit ICPHSO’s website for more details about the event: https://icphso.org/

Please feel free to contact your regular customer representative for more information.

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API At Spielwarenmesse® 2024, Nuremberg Toy Fair

Spielwarenmesse 2024 API

We are pleased to be participating in the Spielwarenmesse® 2024 in Nuremberg on 30 January – 3 February 2024.

Are you also joining the Spielwarenmesse® 2024 Toy Fair? Come and visit us at our booth B-76 in Hall 7 and discover API’s customized solutions to:

  • Minimise Risks
  • Maximise Safety and
  • Optimise Costs.

Join us each day for a 15-minute seminar on:

  • Continuous support along the quality process from product development to destination market
  • Toys directive explanation and update: basic training and latest news on toys regulations
  • Chemical Risk Management: test efficiently, launch safer products, optimize costs
  • Traceability: All our solutions to bring transparency along your supply chain

Book your appointment to talk to our team!

API’s Solutions for Toys: Stay Ahead Of The Game

API are the toy quality experts of the WORMS SAFETY Alliance. Established in 1994, API is trusted by some of the biggest retailers in Europe. We understand compliance comes first, but also that new challenges require a new approach. We can help you to stay ahead of the game, so you can create better products that are safe to use. We secure the safety and quality of our customers’ products via laboratory testing (compliance and performance), TCF (Product Technical Compliance File), audits, inspections and sustainability solutions made for this industry.

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API At 2023 ICPHSO International Symposium

API At 2023 ICPHSO International Symposium

API is excited to be participating at 2023 ICPHSO International Symposium, Celebrating 30 Years of Global Collaboration. The symposium will take place on October 26-27, 2023 in Almhult, Sweden. The 2-day Symposium hosted by Ikea provides opportunities for global product safety professionals to learn, network and discuss relevant product safety issues, and further enhance the safety of consumer products throughout the world.

 

Visit ICPHSO’s website for more details about the event: https://icphso.org/

 

Will you also attend the event? We hope to share with you new answers to increasing global risks, specifically

  1. How to manage complex risk by leveraging data?
  2. How you can do more with less: allocating your budget more efficiently?
  3. Accredited rPET lab verification: scientific proof to substantiate claims

 

The aim is for you to be able to take insights and ideas back to your business. If this is interesting to you, feel free to contact our representatives for more info!

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Free Online Higg FEM 4.0 Training

API Free Higg FEM 4.0 Training Webinar

The Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM) is a sustainability assessment tool to inform manufacturers, brands, and retailers about the environmental performance of their individual facilities, empowering them to scale sustainability improvements.

The next version of the Higg FEM (Higg FEM 4.0) will be officially released in the coming months. To prepare yourself for the updates, join our free training seminar on 25th September, 2023! Hosted by our Approved Trainer for SAC, this training will provide you the opportunity to better understand the changes that will be made as we transition from Higg FEM 3.0 to Higg FEM 4.0.

Session 1

Date: 25 September 2023 (Monday)

Time: 9:30 am – 11:30 pm (Dhaka Time UTC +06:00)

Click here to register now.

Session 2

Date: 6 October, 2023 (Friday)

Time: 9:30am – 11:30am ‎(New Delhi time UTC+5:30)

Click here to register now.

Topics Covered

  • Version 4.0 cadence timeline
  • Higg FEM 4.0 Framework and methodology
  • Key changes in Higg FEM 4.0
  • Higg FEM 4.0 each section content
  • How to prepare as manufacturers for Higg FEM 2023

About API

API is the household goods and toys quality specialist of the WORMS SAFETY Alliance, the first global alliance of safety and quality management specialists. Established in 1994, API is a leading quality management company specializing in household goods from early development stage to end of production. API aims to secure the safety and quality of its customers’ products via inspection, laboratory testing (compliance and performance), I-TCF (Product Integrity and Technical Compliance File), audits and sustainability solutions.

API is a Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) Trainer Body and Verifier Body approved by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC).

 

We look forward to meeting you in the free webinars! If you have any question about API’s Higg FEM services, feel free to contact us!

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API At 2023 ICPHSO Annual Meeting And Training Symposium

API is excited to be participating at 2023 ICPHSO Annual Meeting and Training Symposium. The symposium will take place on February 20-23, 2023 in Orlando. The 4-day Symposium provides opportunities for global product safety professionals to learn about and discuss relevant product safety issues, and further enhance the safety of consumer products throughout the world.

Visit ICPHSO’s website for more details about the event: https://icphso.org/

Please feel free to contact your regular customer representative for more information.

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API At Spielwarenmesse® 2023, Nuremberg Toy Fair

We are pleased to announce our participation at the Spielwarenmesse® 2023 in Nuremberg on 1-5 February 2023.

Are you also joining the Spielwarenmesse® 2023 Toy Fair? Come and visit us at our booth B-76 in Hall 7 and discover API’s innovative solutions and best practices for Toys Quality Management. Book your appointment to talk to our team! 

API’s Solutions for Toys: Stay Ahead Of The Game

API are the toy quality experts of the WORMS SAFETY Alliance. Established in 1994, API is trusted by some of the biggest retailers in Europe. We understand compliance comes first, but also that new challenges require a new approach. We can help you to stay ahead of the game, so you can create better products that are safe to use. We secure the safety and quality of our customers products via laboratory testing (compliance and performance), TCF (Product Technical Compliance File), audits, inspections and sustainability solutions made for this industry.

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API At 2022 ICPHSO International Symposium

API is excited to be participating as a sponsor at the 2022 ICPHSO International Symposium “Redefining Key Concepts of Product Safety”. The symposium will take place on November 14-15, 2022 in Brussels. The one and a half-day Symposium provides an opportunity for global product safety professionals to participate in discussions that further enhance the safety of consumer products throughout the world.

Visit ICPHSO’s website for more details about the event: https://icphso.org/

Please feel free to contact your regular customer representative for more information.

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COVID-19: Our ‘Epidemic Prevention Measures’

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We have implemented extraordinary “Epidemic Prevention Measures” with the 10 following steps (*This does not concern China where we already have a clear plan communicated and where the situation is improving):
  1. We follow the local authorities’ recommendations in terms of health and safety and travel bans or limitations   
  2. Appointment of one Chief Hygiene Safety Officer per office
  3. Self-temperature checks on a daily basis – above 37.5 degrees, the person must report to the Chief Hygiene and Safety officer and their N+1, and consult a doctor
  4. Recommendations on hygiene rules
  5. Guidelines for employees who exhibit flu-like symptoms to stay home and seek immediate medical advice
  6. Any employee whose family or household member is a suspected case or has travelled to known contaminated clusters shall immediately notify the Chief Hygiene and Safety Officer and:  – Refrain from working from the office or travelling to factories until a decision is made by the Chief Hygiene and Safety Officer and their N+1 – If the risk is confirmed – 14 days self-isolation and work from home
  7. Visitors to our offices for face-to-face meetings are not authorised. If face-to-face meetings are necessary, guests must be registered and determined as healthy by the Chief Hygiene and Safety Officer
  8. Employees to minimize social contact, with a limit on the number of teams at the office at the same time and 1m safety distance followed
  9. Everyone wears mask in office or while travelling to factories
  10. A questionnaire for each factory is implemented with each booking to ensure conditions are suitable for inspection and rules of hygiene and safety are also followed by factories
For more information, consult your usual contacts.
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API Launches its New Online Platform: API Link™

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new API Link™, a cutting-edge system that will give you and your team improved visibility over your processes and bring you faster results through its user-friendly dashboards.

Customers, suppliers and factories can benefit for free from easy booking, inspection and audit overview at any time of the day from anywhere in the world. Online booking is now available for any country in which API operates the following services:

Some of the benefits of the platform

  • 24/7 overview of ongoing and finished orders in 1 click
  • Order tracking with key milestones
  • Real-time notifications
  • Fast, quality booking

Don’t miss our updates on upcoming features.

Interested in learning more about our platform?

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Higg Index FEM Offsite Verification

API is one of the leading Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) approved verifier and trainer bodies and has been conducting both onsite and offsite verifications (General and Chemical Specialist Verifications) in many countries in Asia and Europe.

Within the context of the current pandemic and its restriction on travel, API is offering Higg Index offsite verifications to facilitate the evaluation of the environmental and social performance of manufacturers and facilities and support them in continuing their path towards a more sustainable supply chain.

Although there are limitations to an offsite verification, all facility types and questions at all achievement levels (including Level 2 & 3 Chemicals) can be verified offsite provided that qualified verifiers are used, including chemical specialists where applicable.

We put our solid expertise in Higg Index at the service of our clients and their factories to ensure the adequate development of a verification remotely.

Please contact us (sustainability@api-hk.com) to discuss your Higg Index Verifications further.

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