OPSS Support for LAs Resources

This email contains information on the following:

Important Notice: Local Authority online briefing on products containing asbestos and further recall
Product Safety: Designated standards – toy safety; 2024/25 Product Safety Sampling Protocol publication; Post Implementation review of the Energy Information (lighting) legislation – GB only
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions; Regulators’ Companion LA training recordings
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This email contains information on the following:

Important notice: Local Authority online briefing on products containing asbestos, and new recalls
Product Safety: Product Safety Sampling Protocol and the Product Safety Database; 2024/25 Product Safety Sampling Protocol publication; forward look – next phase for Online Marketplaces consumer awareness campaign
Primary Authority: Updates on partnerships within the tobacco industry; businesses seeking Primary Authority
Construction Products: Understanding your Declaration of Performance obligations for the GB market
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions  
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This email contains information on the following:
Product Safety: Hobbycraft play sand recall - update; Product Safety Database (PSD) update; publication of report on non-compliant and unsafe balloons; reminder of product safety alerts for baby sleep pillows and heat pump tumble dryers
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Construction Products: Product Information Packs (PIPs) new location on Regulators’ Companion
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions
Dates to Note

This email contains information on the following:
Product Safety: Information for enforcing authorities regarding dried decorative seeds; Hobbycraft play sand recall; designated standards amendment proposals – toys; notice of publication – designated standards for lifts and radio equipment; updates to GOV.UK ecodesign of energy-consuming products webpage
Legal Metrology: Request for information: non-approved beer measuring instruments
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: British Standards Online; building LA capability training sessions
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This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: designated standards amendment proposals – toys; notice of publication – designated standards for lifts and radio equipment
Primary Authority: businesses seeking Primary Authority partnerships
Wider Updates: building LA capability training sessions  
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This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Product Safety Database (PSD) design enhancements; OPSS Smart connected products safety campaign; Baby sleep pillow Product Safety Alert
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Construction Products: Single Construction Regulator Prospectus Consultation
Wider Updates: GOV.UK Product Safety Alerts, Reports and Recalls website; Quarterly Live Briefing LA feedback questionnaire; Building LA Capability Training Sessions; Heads of Service email distribution list
Dates to note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: OPSS Smart connected products safety campaign; Urgent Safety Notice: Action Required for Haier Heat Pump Tumble Dryers; Baby sleep pillow Product Safety Alert; Designated standards amendment proposals – lifts and radio equipment
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority partnerships
Construction Products: Construction Products Product Information Packs (PIPS); Single Construction Regulator Prospectus Consultation
Wider Updates: Quarterly Live Briefing resources; Quarterly Live Briefing LA feedback questionnaire; Building LA Capability Training Sessions; Heads of Service email distribution list
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Notes and Actions taken at the OPSS Product Safety Group on 26 June 2025. Please note that it is not formal DBT or OPSS guidance. Only the court of law can make a final decision on the interpretation of law and regulations.

A recording of and slides used during OPSS's Quarterly Live Briefing on Thursday 4 December 2025.

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Urgent Safety Notice: Action Required for Haier Heat Pump Tumble Dryers; Baby sleep pillow Product Safety Alert; E-bike and e-scooter resources in other languages
Primary Authority: Primary Authority Register update - Multi-user accounts; Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA Capability Training Sessions
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This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Urgent Safety Notice: Action Required for Haier Heat Pump Tumble Dryers; Baby sleep pillow Product Safety Alert; E-bike and e-scooter resources in other languages; Product Safety and consumers research report – Wave 9 harms and detriment
Primary Authority: Primary Authority Register Update – Multi-user accounts; Businesses seeking Primary Authority
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This email contains information on the following:

Quarterly Live Briefing: Quarterly Live Briefing LA feedback questionnaire
Product Safety: OPSS online marketplaces campaign; OPSS publishes online marketplace research; Product Safety Testing Sampling Protocol Programme: April 2024 – March 2025 Report
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
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This email contains information on the following:
Quarterly Live Briefing: Joining instructions
Product Safety: OPSS launches new online product safety campaign
Construction Products: Enquiry form added to Regulators’ Companion; Designated standards notices published; OPSS Product Recalls and Alerts
Legal Metrology: Weights and Measures: national and EEC stamp numbers
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
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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
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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

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

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

CFO Email sent to FRS 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: 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.