Quality Assurance • Marketing Compliance

Promotional Material Review - WEEE/Battery Compliance

Duration: 20 months • Role: Quality Assurance Specialist

Building four guidelines for reviewing promotional material showed that this review needs its own work instruction, separate from product labeling review. The regulatory triggers, marketing claims, disposal symbols, battery regulations, are different and easy to miss if reviewers use the wrong checklist.

Context

Promotional material for battery-powered devices carries its own set of regulatory triggers, WEEE disposal symbols and battery regulation requirements, that a standard product labeling checklist doesn't cover. Reviewers needed a dedicated work instruction and flowchart.

Promotional Material Review WEEE Compliance Battery Regulations

Primary Risks Identified

  • Promotional material shipping with a missing or incorrect regulatory disposal/compliance marking (e.g. WEEE symbol)

Testing Approach

Mapped each promotional material type against its applicable regulation (marketing claims, WEEE/battery disposal symbols), then built a checklist/flowchart reviewers could apply consistently.

WEEE Directive Battery Regulations Work Instruction Design

Outcome

Delivered a work instruction and flowchart covering WEEE disposal and battery regulation requirements for promotional material containing battery-powered devices.

Key Lessons

Promotional material review needs its own work instruction separate from product labeling review - the regulatory triggers (marketing claims, disposal symbols, battery regulations) are different and easy to miss if reviewers use the wrong checklist.

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