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