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Product Safety Resources

This page provides links to guidance, toolkits and other resources.
Find out if you will need to use the new UKNI marking and how to use it.
  1. OPSS
Lists of standards that businesses can use to show their products, services or processes comply with essential requirements of legislation.
  1. OPSS
The Office for Product Safety and Standards strategy for strengthening the national capacity for product safety.
  1. OPSS
  1. CE Marking
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.
  1. Vapes
  1. Batteries
  2. Button Cell
  3. Risk Assessment
Product safety compliance update for cricket PPE (excluding helmets) from the Office for Product Safety and Standards.
  1. Cricket
  2. OPSS
  3. PPE
National Product Safety Group (NPSG) guidance on the safety enforcement of contract office chairs.
  1. NPSG
Toy manufacturers', importers' and distributors' responsibilities.
  1. CE Marking
  2. Product Safety Principles
  3. Toys
Guidance notes on legislation relating to gas appliances.
  1. Gas Appliances
  2. Product Safety Principles
Purchase costs form for 2020/21 in relation to product safety published by the Office for Product Safety and Standards.
  1. Purchase Costs Form
  2. Sampling Protocol
  3. Testing
Policy paper on the new protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland and political declaration as presented at the October European Council.
  1. Northern Ireland Protocol
BSI guide for personal protective equipment (PPE) products from non-PPE manufacturers.
  1. BSI
  2. PPE
Listing of Nando (New Approach Notified and Designated Organisations) notified bodies in regards to PPE.
  1. PPE
Database of counterfeit NIOSH respirator certificates.
  1. Coronavirus
  2. COVID-19
Article by the European Safety Federation on suspiscious certificates for PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  1. Coronavirus
  2. COVID-19
  3. PPE