Office for Product Safety and Standards

Part of Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  1. Consumer product safety: advice for staying safe
  2. Business regulation: guidance and tools
  3. Product safety for businesses: A to Z of industry guidance
  4. National regulation: enforcement services
  5. Local regulation: Primary Authority
  6. NMO Technical Services
  7. Regulators: professional guidance and tools

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Summer fun don't fake it

News story

Summer fun – don’t fake it!

Fake goods may seem a cheap alternative but many are harmful and could cause injury.

Whirlpool accepts need for recall following government intervention

Press release

Whirlpool accepts need for recall following government intervention

Whirlpool to issue product recall of unmodified tumble dryers: consumers with an unmodified, affected tumble dryer will be entitled to new replacement machine.

UK Product Safety and Metrology Guidance in a 'no deal' scenario

Guidance

UK Product Safety and Metrology Guidance in a ‘no deal’ scenario

Guidance on amended legislation for businesses and regulators that will apply if the UK leaves the EU on Exit Day without a deal.

Latest from the Office for Product Safety and Standards

  1. National Measurement System: annual highlights 2018
    • Guidance
  2. Regulatory Excellence Awards Highly Commended Hillingdon Ports Team
    • News story
  3. Material measures type exam certificates (length and capacity)
    • Guidance

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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.

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Services

  1. Find your local Trading Standards office
  2. Consumer rights
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Guidance and regulation

  1. Product safety advice for businesses
    • Detailed guide
  2. Gas meter readings and bill calculation
    • Detailed guide
See all guidance and regulation

News and communications

  1. Regulatory Excellence Awards Highly Commended Hillingdon Ports Team
    • News story
  2. Using National Inspection Strategies to tailor proactive intervention and reduce regulatory burdens
    • News story
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Research and statistics

  1. Office for Product Safety and Standards – Research at Office for Product Safety and Standards
    • Research
  2. Working Group on Product Recalls and Safety report
    • Independent report
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Furniture and furnishings fire safety regulations: proposed changes (2016)
    • Consultation outcome
  2. National measurement strategy: delivery plan, 2017 to 2020
    • Policy paper
See all policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Statutory enforcement actions
    • Corporate report
  2. Enforcement and market surveillance annual report
    • Corporate report
See all transparency and freedom of information releases

Our management

Graham Russell MBE
Graham Russell MBE
CEO, Office for Product Safety and Standards

Contact the Office for Product Safety and Standards

Birmingham Office

Office for Product Safety and Standards
Lower Ground Floor
Victoria Square House
Victoria Square
Birmingham
B2 4AJ
United Kingdom

Email

OPSS.enquiries@beis.gov.uk

Enquiries

0121 345 1201

Teddington Office

Office for Product Safety and Standards
Stanton Avenue
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 0JZ
United Kingdom

Reception

020 8943 7272

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
  3. Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.

Freedom of Information requests

Information Rights Unit
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
United Kingdom

Email

foi.requests@beis.gov.uk

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