Resources
This page provides links to guidance, toolkits and other resources.
Product safety information from Electrical Safety First.
- Electrical Safety First
- Plugs and Sockets
- Product Safety Principles
Health and Safety Executive's role as policy lead for health and safety in the workplace and as regulator for product safety for goods used in the workplace.
- European Directives
- HSE
- Market Surveillance
ESA information and resources.
- Product Safety Principles
- RoPSA
GB and NI cosmetic products notification portals.
- Cosmetics
- Product Safety Principles
ISO creates documents that provide requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics which can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose.
- BSI
- Product Safety Principles
Voluntary quality mark that manufacturers and service industries use to demonstrate safety, reliability and quality.
- BSI
- Product Safety Principles
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) info on The Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement (Enforcement Forum).
- ECHA
- European Communities Act 1972
- REACH
An introduction from the Tyre Industry Federation to applicable regulations in England and Wales.
- Product Safety Principles
- Tyres
Euramet guidance on calibrating of non-automatic weighing instruments.
- UK Weighing Federation
- NAWI
International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML) international vocabulary for metrology.
- OIML
- Units of Measurement
European Commission guidance on CE marking.
- CE Marking
- European Communities Act 1972
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) best practice guide on improving measurement understanding.
- NPL
- Units of Measurement
OIML model regulations specifying the metrological characteristics of measuring instruments and methods and equipment for checking their conformity.
- Packaged Goods
- Verification
- Weights
- NAWI
- Cold Water Meters
- Automatic Catchweighing Machines
- Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments
- Automatic Rail Weighbridges
- Beltweighers
- Measuring Instruments
- Metal Stamps
- Load Cells
- Graduated Pipettes
- Length Measures
European Cooperation in Legal Metrology (WELMEC) advice for manufacturers and notified bodies on what the organisation considers as best practice.
- Software
- Testing Indicators
- Peripheral Devices
- WELMEC
- NAWI
- Conformity Assessment
- Automatic Catchweighing Machines
- MID
- Load Cells
International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML) guidelines for the application of certain requirements to legal metrology.
- OIML
- Units of Measurement
- Density
- Calibration
- Hardness
International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML) advice on harmonising and improving legal metrology work.
- Software
- Pattern Approval
- Vortex Meters
- Certification Bodies
- Density
- Automatic Pipettes
Resources for local regulators.
- GPSR
- OPSS
Resources for local regulators.
- Database
- OPSS
- Product safety
Resources for local regulators.
- S70 W & M
- Primary Authority advice
- OPSS
- W & M Bulletins