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This email contains information on the following:

Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: July OPSS funded training; Quarterly Live Briefing
Dates to note
  1. Head of service
Product Safety: LA e-bike and e-scooter project returns monthly deadline
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Dates to note
  1. Head of service
Guidance from the Vaping Expert Panel on what officers should do if they discover vapes containing CBD (cannabidiol) or THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) during enforcement visits.
  1. Vapes
Important updates: Pre-election period; Change of email addresses
Product Safety: Current fire safety product cases
Primary Authority: Training for new and potential Primary Authority providers; Businesses seeking a Primary Authority partner
Dates to note
  1. Head of service
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.
  1. Vapes
Training session, including information on standards and the dangers of lithium-ion batteries
  1. e-Scooters
  2. Machinery
Quarterly local authority briefing from the Office of Product Safety and Standards, recorded on the 30 April 2024.
  1. Product safety
IPO Copyright Explained webinar provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
  1. Forfeiture
  2. Trade marks
  3. Patents
  4. Copyright
  1. Forfeiture
  2. Trade marks
  3. Patents
  4. Copyright
IPO Trade Marks Explained webinar provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
  1. Forfeiture
  2. Trade marks
  3. Patents
  4. Copyright
IPO legal update training provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
  1. Forfeiture
  2. Trade marks
  3. Patents
  4. Copyright
PRISM Spotlight On: recording your risk assessments, including using the digital tools presented by the Department for Business and Trade.
  1. PRISM
  2. Risk Assessment
PRISM Spotlight On: using data and arriving at probabilities for your harm scenarios presented by the Department for Business & Trade.
  1. PRISM
  2. Risk Assessment
A series of videos showing how to use catchweighers and checkweighers
  1. Checkweighers
  2. Automatic Catchweighing Machines
PRISM stage 3 risk assessment webinar presented by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
  1. PRISM
  2. Risk Assessment
Introduction to PRISM and risk basics webinar presented by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
  1. CTSI Training
  2. OPSS
  3. PRISM
  4. Risk Assessment
  5. Withdrawal Notice
  1. Construction Products Regulations
  1. Construction Products Regulations
  2. Building Safety Act
OPSS quarterly briefing for Local Authority and Fire and Rescue Services from 30 January 2024.
  1. Local authority
Product Safety: Publication of the OPSS Delivery Report 2022-23, UPP Batteries withdrawal notice
Primary Authority: Primary Authority Shared Learning Day, Primary Authority training dates, Business seeking PA Partner
Wider Updates: Announcement – extending recognition of CE marking
  1. Head of service
Agenda for the Primary Authority Shared Learning Day taking place on Thursday 29 February 2024.
  1. Head of service