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Product safety research

Papers from the Office for Product Safety and Standards.

We commission and assure high quality, strategic, science-based research to strengthen the evidence base for the development of product safety policy, delivery and enforcement.

Chemicals and materials in products

Construction products

Consumers and vulnerability

Making regulation work better

The application of risk

The right evidence for the future

Updates to this page

Published 5 October 2020
Last updated 22 July 2026 Show all updates
  1. "Digital Innovation in Product Safety – a Scoping Study" added to the "Right evidence for the future dection", "Evolution of the construction product regulatory landscape" added to the "Construction products" section and "OPSS product safety & consumer survey: topical research wave one" added to the "Consumers and vulnerability" section.

  2. Product safety: baseline compliance research added to the Making regulation work better section.

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