Office for Product Safety and Standards
Safety & Standards
- Consumer product safety: advice for staying safe
- Business regulation: guidance and tools
- Product safety for businesses: A to Z of industry guidance
- National regulation: enforcement services
- Local regulation: Primary Authority
- NMO Technical Services
- Regulators: professional guidance and tools
- Product safety research
Featured
OPSS has produced safety tips on how to shop safely online for children’s Christmas toys.
Guidance on how OPSS is supporting businesses and local authorities and protecting consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guidance for businesses on specific product safety and metrology regulations.
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
- Furniture and furnishings fire safety regulations: proposed changes (2016)
- National measurement strategy: delivery plan, 2017 to 2020
Transparency and freedom of information releases
See all transparency and freedom of information releasesOur 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.
Make an FOI request
- Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
- Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
- Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.
Freedom of Information requests
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
United Kingdom
Corporate information
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