Product Safety Resources

A list of businesses that provide testing of vape liquids – inclusion on this list is not to be seen as approval or authorisation by CTSI or the Vaping Expert Panel.

Training session, including information on standards and the dangers of lithium-ion batteries

Guide to application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.

PRISM Spotlight On: recording your risk assessments, including using the digital tools presented by the Department for Business and Trade.

PRISM Spotlight On: using data and arriving at probabilities for your harm scenarios presented by the Department for Business & Trade.

PRISM stage 3 risk assessment webinar presented by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).

Introduction to PRISM and risk basics webinar presented by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).

Guidance for Trading Standards Professionals in raising queries on e-cigarettes to the Vaping Expert Panel

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MHRA template for E-Cigarette Seizure review

Advice issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Find out if you will need to use the new UKNI marking and how to use it.

Lists of standards that businesses can use to show their products, services or processes comply with essential requirements of legislation.

The NPSG have reviewed and collated some key sources of information which we believe currently provide the best advice for LAs and to recommend to businesses.

Summarises the regulations which Vape Producers must comply with under the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive. Includes producer and distributor obligations and Authorised Treatment Facilities (ATFs) and a list of AATFs identified by OPSS.

A powerpoint from the Office of Product Safety and Standards covering the Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021.

A powerpoint from the Office of Product Safety and Standards covering the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulations 2017.

OPSS guidance for Local Authority Trading Standards on risk assessing products that contain button and coin batteries (February 2023).