Resources
This page provides links to guidance, toolkits and other resources.
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
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: July OPSS funded training; Quarterly Live Briefing
Dates to note
- Head of service
Product Safety: LA e-bike and e-scooter project returns monthly deadline
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Dates to note
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Dates to note
- 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.
- 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
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
- 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.
- Vapes
Training session, including information on standards and the dangers of lithium-ion batteries
- e-Scooters
- Machinery
Quarterly local authority briefing from the Office of Product Safety and Standards, recorded on the 30 April 2024.
- Product safety
IPO Copyright Explained webinar provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
- Forfeiture
- Trade marks
- Patents
- Copyright
IPO Trade Marks Explained webinar provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
- Forfeiture
- Trade marks
- Patents
- Copyright
IPO legal update training provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
- Forfeiture
- Trade marks
- Patents
- Copyright
PRISM Spotlight On: recording your risk assessments, including using the digital tools presented by the Department for Business and Trade.
- PRISM
- Risk Assessment
PRISM Spotlight On: using data and arriving at probabilities for your harm scenarios presented by the Department for Business & Trade.
- PRISM
- Risk Assessment
A series of videos showing how to use catchweighers and checkweighers
- Checkweighers
- Automatic Catchweighing Machines
PRISM stage 3 risk assessment webinar presented by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
- PRISM
- Risk Assessment
Introduction to PRISM and risk basics webinar presented by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
- CTSI Training
- OPSS
- PRISM
- Risk Assessment
- Withdrawal Notice
OPSS quarterly briefing for Local Authority and Fire and Rescue Services from 30 January 2024.
- 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
Primary Authority: Primary Authority Shared Learning Day, Primary Authority training dates, Business seeking PA Partner
Wider Updates: Announcement – extending recognition of CE marking
- Head of service
Agenda for the Primary Authority Shared Learning Day taking place on Thursday 29 February 2024.
- Head of service