Resources
This page provides links to guidance, toolkits and other resources.
Guidance by the Legal Metrology Expert Panel (LMEP) on safety requirements for class II jewellers scales.
- NAWI
- Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 2000
Guidance by the Legal Metrology Expert Panel (LMEP) on safety requirements for customer use baggage check weighing instruments.
- Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 2000
- NAWI
Guidance by the Legal Metrology Expert Panel (LMEP) on intoxicating liquor measuring equipment.
- Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Order 1988
Guidance by the Legal Metrology Expert Panel (LMEP) on the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 2006 (PGR).
- Weights and Measures Regulations
Guidance by the Legal Metrology Expert Panel (LMEP) on soft drink vending machine systems.
- Packaged Goods
- Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 2006
Guidance by the Legal Metrology Expert Panel (LMEP) on the use of non-automatic weight instruments (NAWIs) by pawnbrokers.
- NAWI
- Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 2000
Guidance by the Legal Metrology Expert Panel (LMEP) on the weight marking of printer cartridges.
- Packaged Goods
- Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 2006
Code of practice on consumer product safety related recalls and other corrective actions.
- BSI
- Product Recalls
PROSAFE website.
- European Communities Act 1972
- European Directives
- PROSAFE
International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML) international vocabulary for metrology.
- OIML
- Units of Measurement
Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) information on enforcement and research activities.
- Aerosols
- CLP Regulation
- Dangerous Goods
- European Directives
International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML) guidelines for the application of certain requirements to legal metrology.
- OIML
- Units of Measurement
- Density
- Calibration
- Hardness
Euramet guidance on calibrating of non-automatic weighing instruments.
- UK Weighing Federation
- NAWI
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
Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe (PROSAFE) risk assessment web page.
- General Product Safety Regulations
- PROSAFE
- Risk Assessment
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
GB and NI cosmetic products notification portals.
- Cosmetics
- Product Safety Principles
Product safety information from Electrical Safety First.
- Electrical Safety First
- Plugs and Sockets
- Product Safety Principles
