Product Safety Resources

Guidance issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Advice issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

The Office for Product Safety and Standards strategy for strengthening the national capacity for product safety.

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).

Product safety compliance update for cricket PPE (excluding helmets) from the Office for Product Safety and Standards.

Toy manufacturers', importers' and distributors' responsibilities.

Guidance notes on legislation relating to gas appliances.

This BSI guide summarises the main characteristics of the four most common categories of mask and face covering available in the UK that health workers and the public may use.

National Product Safety Group (NPSG) guidance on the safety enforcement of electrical cells for consumers.

Guidance by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) on the sale of fireworks by businesses.

Code of practice on consumer product safety related recalls and other corrective actions.

PROSAFE website.