At Coway, we are committed to maintaining the highest level of safety and sanitation for our products from their design stage. Through technological innovation, we apply easy-to-clean and replaceable detachable cork tips for all models with safety warning displays for a check-up even if the customers are not subject to regular care service.
With the HSPM (Hazardous Substances Processing Management) certification, we reinforce our chemical process control system based on a cycle of planning, execution, review, and continuous improvement. We ensure compliance with EU / K-RoHS standards for all parts used since 2010. In 2015, we expanded K-RoHS compliance and registered all our service parts codes for internal validation of conformity. In 2016, we built a database in order to identify chemical substances used in our workplaces, and a database for compliance with domestic and overseas regulations and requirements. In 2017, we applied our chemical process control system to each product to meet the demands of our customers for chemical process and ensured compliance with global environment regulations.
At Coway, we maintain our safety certifications even after the product is launched and expand the scope of certification to a corporate-wide level as part of certification management practice. In 2017, we conducted post-certification of electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility, and reviewed the energy efficiency of our water purifiers to prevent inconsistencies between our certifications and actual performance. Meanwhile, we make sure our products comply with local regulations from their development phase. In 2018, we plan to expand the scope of our performance certification management such as Clean Air (CA) and Healthy Humidifier (HH) to maintain its status.
Specialized testing devices/equipment
(e.g. electrical safety, electromagnetic, standby power)
approx. 250 types
New safety
test guidelines
8cases
Business Case
As part of our efforts to enhance product certification management, we prepared for the renewal of CICS for certification management website and identification of certificates that required corporate-wide management in 2017. Based on this, in 2018, we will establish and implement a system and process to maintain the initial status of certifications as well as the integrated management of our safety and performance certification.
