Training recommendations? Bringing our RoHS and REACH compliance efforts in-house

[TimothyB]

Hello,

Our company has previously used an outside vendor for RoHS and REACH compliance, mostly because a couple of new customers came online and we had an extensive list of assemblies to document in a short time frame. Moving forward, we'd like to train someone in-house to manage our compliance. If anyone has lessons learned, best practices, or can recommend a training provider I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

 

[mattador78]

If your UK based start with the governments guidance on RoHS and REACH as easy reading. If you know you have products which are exempt from the guidance separate them in to a different list, you will still need to chase information in regard to the suppliers for them. This will be all the C-TAC sub committee information which sometimes takes a while to trace. Who has to be compliant with REACH Declarations? | Quality Forum and Business Standards Discussions (elsmar.com) there's a bit more on here as well.

 

[TimothyB]

If you know you have products which are exempt from the guidance separate them in to a different list, you will still need to chase information in regard to the suppliers for them

Thanks, that's the rub. I know nothing about environmental compliance. I'm in the US managing Quality for a company that has landed customers far, far out of their league, so I'm buried in working to evolve the QMS itself while also working many lean projects. I'm having to start from the ground up with RoHS/REACH and simply don't have time. Management refuses to hire a compliance specialist, hence the reason I plan to get training for one of my engineers. With so many providers out there I'm fishing around for recommendations before just picking one at random.