Resources

Advice issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Product Safety – Community Focused Public Safety Funding; Product Safety Database annual reports; product-related fire incident notifications procedure – e-Bikes and e- Scooters Request;
Primary Authority – businesses seeking Primary Authority partner.

OPSS publishes the 2022-23 Section 70 Weights and Measures report as Official Statistics.

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

Find a UK market conformity assessment body.

Building relationships and improving compliance with environmental health, trading standards and fire safety legislation through Primary Authority.

Resources for business.

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

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

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

Quarterly local authority briefing from the Office of Product Safety and Standards, 11th October 2023. Covers Product Safety Review and Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Consultations, and updates around the Section 70 Report, CE extension and e-bikes, e-scooters and conversion kits.

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.

Product Safety Review & Fire Safety of Domestic Upholstered Furniture Consultations
Community Focused Public Safety Proposals
Gas Hob Elbow Joints
Regulators' Companion
Businesses seeking PA

A question has been raised concerning the safe transportation of Fuel Dispenser Test Measures. The Legal Metrology Expert Panel has considered this matter and offers the following points for consideration when Local Authorities compile their own appropriate Health and Safety at Work procedures.