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This page provides links to guidance, toolkits and other resources.
Wider Updates: Change of email addresses; Quarterly Live Briefing
Product Safety: Ebike and escooter safety
Legal Metrology: Section 70 request for Weights and Measures returns 2023-24
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking a Primary Authority
Dates to note
  1. Head of service
Important updates: Change of Local Authority Unit’s email address, Quarterly Live Briefing; Extension of CE marking and fast-track UKCA measures
Legal Metrology: Contacts for Section 70 Weights and Measures Returns
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking a Primary Authority
Dates to note
  1. Head of service
IPO Trade Marks Explained webinar provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
  1. Forfeiture
  2. Trade marks
  3. Patents
  4. Copyright
IPO Copyright Explained webinar provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
  1. Forfeiture
  2. Trade marks
  3. Patents
  4. Copyright
  1. Forfeiture
  2. Trade marks
  3. Patents
  4. Copyright
IPO legal update training provided by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
  1. Forfeiture
  2. Trade marks
  3. Patents
  4. Copyright
Please note important update: Change of Local Authority Unit’s email address
Product Safety: OPSS future work with Local Authorities on fires relating to e-bike and e-scooter lithium batteries
Legal Metrology: Contacts for Section 70 Weights and Measures Returns
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking a Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA Capability – learning and development opportunities; Quarterly Live Briefing
Dates to note
  1. Head of service
PRISM Spotlight On: recording your risk assessments, including using the digital tools presented by the Department for Business and Trade.
  1. PRISM
  2. Risk Assessment
PRISM Spotlight On: using data and arriving at probabilities for your harm scenarios presented by the Department for Business & Trade.
  1. PRISM
  2. Risk Assessment
A series of videos showing how to use catchweighers and checkweighers
  1. Checkweighers
  2. Automatic Catchweighing Machines
PRISM stage 3 risk assessment webinar presented by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
  1. PRISM
  2. Risk Assessment
Introduction to PRISM and risk basics webinar presented by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
  1. PRISM
  2. Risk Assessment
  3. Withdrawal Notice
  1. Construction Products Regulations
  1. Primary Authority advice
  2. Primary Authority group
  3. Primary Authority Register
  4. Primary Authority training
  1. Construction Products Regulations
  2. Building Safety Act
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
  1. Head of service
OPSS quarterly briefing for Local Authority and Fire and Rescue Services from 30 January 2024.
  1. Local authority
Southwest PARG Case Study discussing the benefits of Primary Authority partnership, recorded on the 16 January 2024.
  1. Primary Authority group
Agenda for the Primary Authority Shared Learning Day taking place on Thursday 29 February 2024.
  1. Head of service
Digital ID Session from the Primary Authority Supermarket Group.
  1. Primary Authority group