Resources

OPSS quarterly briefing for Local Authority and Fire and Rescue Services from 30 January 2024.

Southwest PARG Case Study discussing the benefits of Primary Authority partnership, recorded on the 16 January 2024.

Product Safety: Sampling Protocol; Product Safety Review (PSR) consultation - digital labelling views sought
Primary Authority: Primary Authority shared learning day; businesses seeking PA partner
Construction Products: New resources on Regulators’ Companion
Wider Updates: Regulators’ Companion – your views

Agenda for the Primary Authority Shared Learning Day taking place on Thursday 29 February 2024.

Digital ID Session from the Primary Authority Supermarket Group.

Product Safety: Product Safety Database user research survey, Updates to the Child safety: blind cords awareness resources, British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA) aerosols labelling enquiry
Primary Authority: Business seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Vape retailers WEEE compliance video

Guidance outlining how retailers can collect used vapes in store, store them safely and arrange collections on a regular basis.

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

Guidance for Trading Standards: heated tobacco products

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Quarterly Online Briefing
Product Safety: UPP Batteries withdrawal notice
Primary Authority: Reminder – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day; business seeking partnership
Wider Updates: Department for Business and Trade (DBT) announcement – recognition of CE marking; Request to share intelligence - ecodesign and energy labelling issues with lava style lamps

How to place CE marking on your product, how to identify UK requirements relating to construction products, and how to apply to be a UK Notified Body or Technical Assessment Body.

Product Safety: E-Scooters, E-bikes and conversion kits; Product Safety Database user research survey
Primary Authority: Primary Authority training dates 2024; businesses seeking partnerships reminder

Guidance providing practical information for placing construction products on the GB market.

Guidance providing practical information for placing construction products on the Northern Ireland market and unfettered access provisions.

Wider Updates: Quarterly Online Briefing, Regulators’ Companion – Your Views
Product Safety: Reminder – OPSS Digital Team seeking Product Safety Database (PSD) user research and feedback, PSD updates, Publication of the OPSS Delivery Report 2022-23, OPSS Sampling Protocol and Pilot
Primary Authority: Reminder – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day; Businesses seeking partnerships; Calls to join newly-formed Primary Authority Coffee Shop panel

Product Safety: Designated Standard for PPE with restriction
Primary Authority: Date for your Diary – Primary Authority Shared Learning Day, Primary Authority Training Dates 2024, Businesses seeking Primary Authority partner
Wider Updates: Disposal of single use vapes - video guidance, Deadline extended for DBT Smarter Regulation and regulatory landscape consultation