Resources

Terms of reference outlining the purpose, membership, responsibilities and function of the TEP.

This email contains information on the following:

Quarterly Live Briefing: Save the Date
Product Safety: OPSS product safety campaigns forward look; British Standards Online - training offer
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: DBT Local Authority deep dive sessions in England
Dates to Note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Publication of button battery safety literature review; Product Safety research collection; reminder: British Standards Online - training offer
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: DBT Local Authority deep dive sessions in England
Dates to Note

OPSS offers Local Authorities access to internal OPSS expertise; including technical, scientific and risk associated with construction products.

Heads of Service Email sent to LAs on 6 November 2025.

CFO Email sent to FRS on 30 October 2025.

Heads of Service email sent to LAs on 30 October 2025.

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: E-bike battery safety funding opportunity; Product Safety Database Notifications, Reporting and Data Quality webinar recordings; proposal to amend designated standards; OPSS firework safety campaign
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building Local Authority Capability training in November; Regulators’ Companion Student Hub
Dates to Note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Launch of OPSS Firework Safety campaign; OPSS-funded Product Safety Database local authority officer training; reminder: British Standards Online - training offer
Legal Metrology: Guidance: UK national certificates for level gauging systems
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building Local Authority Capability training in November; open consultation reminder – high-caffeine energy drinks sale ban to children; keeping up to date with OPSS developments
Dates to note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: British Standards Online - training offer; OPSS fireworks safety campaign reminder; reminder of Product Safety Database (PSD) update; OPSS-funded Product Safety Database local authority officer training
Primary Authority: ‘Being a Local Authority in Primary Authority – What’s your role?’ recording available; businesses seeking primary authority
Dates to Note

Resource page for OPSS's Quarterly Live Briefing which was held on Thursday 11 September 2025.

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Machinery safety legislation – reminder of open call for evidence; updates to designated standards GOV.UK pages
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking primary authority
Wider Updates: Building Local Authority Capability training in October
Dates to Note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Important update for Product Safety Database (PSD) users
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking primary authority
Wider Updates: New price marking rules for businesses and consumers; banning the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children consultation; Building Local Authority Capability training in October
Dates to Note

Introduction to Fireworks Enforcement webinar presented Ian Hillier on behalf of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute and Office for Product Safety and Standards.

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Update to Sampling Protocol resources on Regulators’ Companion
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Unlock the Full Power of British Standards: Free Access via British Standards Online Library (BSOL ); request for feedback on product safety, construction products, and legal metrology training; Building LA Capability training sessions in October
Dates to Note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Product Safety Testing Sampling Protocol 2025-26; Haier integrated heat pump tumble dryers' corrective action
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Construction Products: Building LA Capability Construction Products training session in Sheffield
Wider Updates: Regulators’ Companion maintenance; request for feedback on product safety, construction products, and legal metrology training; Building LA Capability training sessions in September and October
Dates to Note

This protocol provides support for local authority regulation of product safety, namely by funding the testing of samples sourced by local authorities from the businesses responsible for placing products on the market.

This email contains information on the following:

Quarterly Live Briefing
Product Safety: Heat pump tumble dryer incident
Primary Authority: Reminder to update your Primary Authority Register passwords; businesses seeking Primary Authority
Construction Products: Building LA Capability Construction Products training session in Sheffield
Wider updates: Building LA Capability training sessions in September and October
Dates to note

HoS Email sent to to LAs on 28/08/2025.

Heads of Service email sent on 21 August 2025.

Heads of Service email sent on 14 August 2025.