Office for Product Safety and Standards
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- Consumer products: your safety and protection
- Business regulation: guidance and tools
- Product safety for businesses: A to Z of industry guidance
- National regulation: enforcement services
- National regulation: construction products
- Designated standards
- Local regulation: Primary Authority
- Regulators: professional guidance and tools
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Information on OPSS product safety alerts, reports and recalls for unsafe products and resources for consumers, businesses and regulators.
Through the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill, the Government will be able to amend regulations to reflect how products are bought and used today and in the future.
New posters promoting button battery safety
News story
New posters promoting button battery safety provide 5 top tips to keep children safe.
The Government has published new independent research into the safety of e-bike and e-scooter lithium-ion batteries, chargers and e-bike conversion kits.
A new safety campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of buying faulty and unsafe e-bikes, e-scooters and components such as batteries has been launched
New resources launched to raise awareness about unsafe baby sleeping products.
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Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.
Office for Product Safety and Standards is part of the Department for Business and Trade.
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Birmingham Office
4th Floor Multistory
18 The Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6BS
United Kingdom
Enquiries
0121 345 1201
Teddington Office
Stanton Avenue
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 0JZ
United Kingdom
Enquiries
0121 345 1201
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