Environment analysis
Legal requirements
Risks and dangers of the product
- Risk assessment
- Legal significance of the risk assessment
- Types of risks and hazard classes (hazard levels)
- Planning and carrying out a risk assessment
Product safety
- Basics of product safety
- Basics of product safety law
- Characteristics of safe and unsafe products
- Regulations on safety requirements
- Requirements for information products due to product safety law
- Manufacturer obligations for product monitoring
- Organization and operation of market observation (e.g. at European level)
- Methods to achieve or increase product safety (e.g. design measures, safety devices, safety and warning notices)
Duty to instruct
- Requirements based on the duty to instruct: provisions on which types of information products must be supplied and according to which specifications (e.g. product safety law, EC Machinery Directive)
- Documentation obligations due to legal requirements (laws and guidelines)
- Implementation options for documentation obligations
Legal consequences
- Principles of contractual liability
- Main features of statutory product liability
- Liability in the field of technical communication (e.g. personal and corporate liability)
- Content requirements in product liability for information products
- Formal requirements in product liability for information products
- Possible legal consequences due to inadequate information products
- Transposition of supranational law (e.g. EU directives) into national law; significance for product liability
Copyright and right of use
- Basics of copyright law and the right of use (license law)
- Relevance of copyright and usage rights in technical communication
- Potential terms of use
- Copyright for sources and requirements for the legally compliant use of sources (e.g. images, texts, software licenses)
- Use of copyrighted material (e.g. software, images)
- Legal situation when using open source
Data protection
- Basics of data protection and data security (e.g. GDPR, secure storage, data protection agreements, deletion of personal data)
- Relevance of data protection for technical communication
Product compliance
- Basics of product compliance
- Declarations of conformity in information products
- Allocation of tasks and roles with regard to ensuring product compliance
- Technical communication requirements for product compliance and placing products on the market
Legal research
- Basics of legal research
- Relevant legislation for the field of technical communication
- Public sources of information and supply as well as information portals
Data and IT security
- Data and IT security with regard to the content of the information product
- Data and IT security in the creation process
- Data and IT security with regard to the provision of the information product
- Data and IT security with regard to the storage of personal data [DSGV]
Legal requirements for document management
- Archiving of information products
- Revision security
- Retention periods
- Storage locations
- Consequences and liability for inadequate document management