PL(Product Liability) which took effect from July 2002 in Korea, represents that the current market principles are consumer-oriented mainly, and without deep consideration of consumer's safety, companies could never survive in the market competition t...
PL(Product Liability) which took effect from July 2002 in Korea, represents that the current market principles are consumer-oriented mainly, and without deep consideration of consumer's safety, companies could never survive in the market competition today. PL gives big threats to the companies being involved in the any part of the process of manufacturing, distribution, sales of products, indeed. It is getting more important and urgent that companies prepare strategic plans for PL and build the product development system based on PL.The strategic plans for PL are divided two categories; PLP(Product Liability Prevention) aims to eliminate or reduce product defects in the stage of product development, and PLD(Product Liability Defence) aims to manage legal issues and claims from consumers after accident occurs which is related with product defects. This paper aims to illustrate PL prevention system through research of PL cases and corporate strategies for it, and identify design approach to achieve product safety. According to this study, there are two design approaches: Methodology- based Approach and System-based Approach. The study found that it is very important to identify design issues for product safety through the framework of integrated product design methodology and system, and the result of the study suggested a design framework model for product safety to achieve PL prevention in the stage of product development.