by westoncompliance | Dec 12, 2022 | Electrical, Equipment, Hazardous Materials, OPSS, Safety, UK
This guidance will assist your understanding of the regulations and includes obligations for manufacturers, their authorised representatives, importers and distributors. The Great Britain guide has been updated to reflect the further extension of the transition period...
by westoncompliance | Jul 7, 2022 | OPSS, Product Design, Product Safety, UK
This sets out the approach of the Office for Product Safety and Standards to deal with non-compliance by those we regulate and resolve potential product safety issues. Across all the areas in which we deliver regulation our aim is to support and enable those we...
by westoncompliance | Jun 1, 2022 | Electrical, Equipment, Explosive Atmosphere, OPSS, PPE, Pressure Equipment, Product Design, Product Safety, UK
The Office of Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has revised the following guides to clarify what actions businesses must take if non-compliance with the regulations is found: – Pressure Equipment Safety Regulations 2016: Great Britain (link) – Electrical...
by westoncompliance | Nov 26, 2021 | Communication, Electrical, Emissions, Environment, Equipment, Explosive Atmosphere, Health and Safety, Lifting, Noise, OPSS, PPE, Pressure Equipment, Product Safety, Radio Communication, Safety, UK
The following statutory guidance documents have been updated by the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS). A description of the updates to each respective document can be found at the bottom of each hyperlinked gov.uk page if you click ‘+show all...
by westoncompliance | Sep 2, 2021 | Defra, Electrical, Environment, Environment Agency, OPSS, UK
This new guidance explains the definitions of, and how to classify, the battery types under the: – Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008 – Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 – England only Read more…...
by westoncompliance | Jul 21, 2021 | BEIS, Ecodesign, Electrical, Environment, OPSS, Product Design, UK
Tier 1 ecodesign requirements have been in place since 1 October 2019 for small, medium and large power transformers in the UK. The Tier 2 requirements have higher minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) than the former Tier 1 requirements, and came into force on...
by westoncompliance | Jul 6, 2021 | BEIS, Ecodesign, Electrical, OPSS, UK
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has published a new tool relating to ecodesign design requirements for power transformers. Tier 2 ecodesign requirements for small, medium and...
by westoncompliance | Apr 22, 2021 | COVID-19, Equipment, Health and Safety, Occupational Health, OPSS, PPE, UK
This Guide is for businesses placing personal protective equipment (PPE) on the market in Great Britain from 1 April 2021. This guidance is designed to help you understand Regulation 2016/425 and the Personal Protective Equipment (Enforcement) Regulations 2018, as...
by westoncompliance | Feb 5, 2021 | Brexit, Equipment, OPSS, Safety, UK
This guidance will assist your understanding of the regulations as amended at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 and includes obligations for responsible persons (manufacturers and their authorised representatives). The regulations apply to...
by westoncompliance | Feb 5, 2021 | Brexit, Equipment, OPSS, Pressure Equipment, Safety, UK
This guidance will assist your understanding of the regulations as amended at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 and includes obligations for manufacturers, their authorised representatives, importers and distributors. The Simple Pressure Vessels...
by westoncompliance | Feb 4, 2021 | Brexit, Electrical, Equipment, OPSS, Safety, UK
This guidance will assist your understanding of the regulations as amended at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 and includes obligations for manufacturers, their authorised representatives, importers and distributors. The Electrical Equipment...
by westoncompliance | Feb 4, 2021 | Brexit, Equipment, OPSS, UK
This guidance will assist your understanding of the regulations as amended at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 and includes obligations for manufacturers, their authorised representatives, importers and distributors. The Electromagnetic...
by westoncompliance | Feb 4, 2021 | Brexit, Equipment, OPSS, Product Design, Safety, UK
This guidance will assist your understanding of the regulations as amended at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 and includes obligations for manufacturers, their authorised representatives, importers and distributors. The Lifts Regulations 1997 were...
by westoncompliance | Feb 1, 2021 | Brexit, Emissions, Environment, Equipment, Noise, OPSS, UK
This Guide is for businesses placing equipment for use outdoors on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021. This Guide is designed to help you understand the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Regulations 2001, as amended by the...
by westoncompliance | Jan 28, 2021 | BEIS, Brexit, Ecodesign, OPSS, Product Design, UK
This guidance is for manufacturers, their authorised representatives and importers. It has been updated to reflect amendments, at the end of the transition period, to the regulations and the different rules for placing energy-related products on the market in Great...
by westoncompliance | Dec 21, 2020 | Emissions, Environment, Equipment, Noise, OPSS, UK
This Guide is for businesses placing equipment for use outdoors on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021. This Guide is designed to help you understand the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Regulations 2001, as amended by the...
by westoncompliance | Dec 2, 2020 | Brexit, Equipment, OPSS, Pressure Equipment, Safety, UK
This Guide is for businesses placing pressure equipment or assemblies on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021. This Guide is designed to help these businesses understand The Pressure Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016, as amended by the Product Safety and...
by westoncompliance | Dec 2, 2020 | Brexit, Equipment, Lifting, OPSS, Safety, UK
This Guide is for businesses placing lifts and safety components for lifts on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021. This Guide is designed to help these businesses comply with The Lifts Regulations 2016, as amended by the Product Safety and Metrology etc....
by westoncompliance | Dec 2, 2020 | Brexit, Communication, Equipment, OPSS, Radio Communication, Safety, UK
This Guide is for businesses placing radio equipment on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021. This Guide is designed to help these businesses understand The Radio Equipment Regulations 2017, as amended by the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment...
by westoncompliance | Dec 2, 2020 | Brexit, Equipment, Explosive Atmosphere, OPSS, Safety, UK
This Guide is for businesses placing equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021. This Guide is designed to help these businesses comply with The Equipment and Protective...
