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From Office for Product Safety and Standards
  • Information on OPSS product safety alerts, reports and recalls for unsafe products and resources for consumers, businesses and regulators.

  • OPSS is leading a fresh campaign to support fireworks safety, with content for use by local authorities, community groups and the public.

  • Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors (including retailers).

  • Legally manufacture meters which are of the design originally approved and ensure they are verified to operate within the statutory limits.

  • Guidance for community groups and event organisers on running safe and considerate fireworks displays.

  • How to submit a cosmetic product notification to the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS).

  • Check what you need to do to sell cosmetic products in Great Britain.

  • Lists of standards that businesses can use to show their products, services or processes comply with essential requirements of legislation.

  • How to read your gas meter and convert this reading to kilowatt hours.

  • Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors.

  • A framework for how regulators should engage with those they regulate.

  • Information for consumers.

  • Find out which regulations apply to your products and where to go for further information on how to comply with them.

  • Guidance for heat suppliers.

  • Electricity Act 1989: Statutory register of all pattern approved electricity meters suitable for billing purposes in the UK.

  • Create a label for an energy-related product (ErP) that you make or sell to UK customers, for example white goods, boilers and other household appliances.

  • What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.

  • Guidance for suppliers and dealers.

  • What you need to know about and do to comply with the law and keep consumers safe.

  • Guidance for manufacturers on placing batteries and accumulators on the market.