Office for Product Safety and Standards
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- Consumer product safety: advice for staying safe
- Business regulation: guidance and tools
- Product safety for businesses: A to Z of industry guidance
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Featured
New blind cord safety campaign
News story
OPSS is reminding people of the potential dangers of blind cords and loops to children and the steps they can take to reduce the risks.
A national construction product regulator will operate within the Office for Product Safety and Standards which will be expanded with £10m in funding.
Guidance on PPE, face coverings, face visors, and hand cleaning and sanitising products, for the protection of consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
UK product safety and metrology
Guidance
Summary guidance for businesses on specific product safety and metrology regulations.
Designated standards
Guidance
Lists of standards that businesses can use to show their products, services or processes comply with essential requirements of legislation.
Weekly reports of products posing a risk to the health and safety of consumers.
Latest from the Office for Product Safety and Standards
What the Office for Product Safety and Standards does
Our purpose is to make regulation work, so that it protects people and enables businesses to understand their obligations.
Office for Product Safety and Standards is part of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
Documents
Guidance and regulation
See all guidance and regulationPolicy papers and consultations
- UK product safety review: call for evidence
- Furniture and furnishings fire safety regulations: proposed changes (2016)
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Office for Product Safety and Standards Delivery Report 2019/20
- Memorandum of understanding between BEIS and UKAS
Our management
Contact the Office for Product Safety and Standards
Birmingham Office
4th Floor Cannon House
18 The Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6BS
United Kingdom
Enquiries
0121 345 1201
Though our work continues, this office is temporarily closed in accordance with government advice on COVID-19. To contact us, please use email or telephone.
Teddington Office
Stanton Avenue
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 0JZ
United Kingdom
Reception
020 8943 7272
Though our work continues, this office is temporarily closed in accordance with government advice on COVID-19. To contact us, please use email or telephone.
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Freedom of Information requests
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
United Kingdom
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