General Product Safety Regulations

This document has been prepared by members of the Product Safety Representatives Group, which is made of representatives of product safety groups from the regions and nations of the UK and is being shared by the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) with Local Authority Trading Standards and Environmental Health Officers for the purpose of providing peer guidance to Local Authority Trading Standards and Environmental Health Officers on the matter of aesthetic products that are neither classed as cosmetic or medical products.

Withdrawal notice template under reg.14 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 for Northern Ireland.

Requirement to warn template under reg.13 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 for Northern Ireland.

Requirement to mark template under reg.12 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 for Northern Ireland.

Suspension notice template under reg.11 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 for Northern Ireland.

Intention to serve recall notice template under reg.15 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 for Northern Ireland.

To support Local Authorities in making referrals to OPSS under the “nationally significant, novel or contentious” criteria OPSS Local Authority Unit have created a guidance document in conjunction with the OPSS Incident Management Team (IMT).

Recall notice template under reg.15 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 for Northern Ireland.

Recall notice template under reg.15 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005.

Intention to serve recall notice template under reg.15 of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005.