Office for Product Safety & Standards

Questions from the Office for Product Safety & Standards:

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Consumer Behaviour What approaches can be taken to measuring public tolerance of risks in relation to emerging harms from construction products? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Consumer Behaviour How are current UK economic and market conditions affecting the behaviour of suppliers and consumers? How does this effect vulnerability and impact vulnerable consumers? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Consumer Behaviour How can OPSS effectively influence consumer decisions and behaviours? a) How can OPSS motivate consumer action in a recall? Or in purchasing safe products? Reporting products following a safety issue? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Consumer Behaviour How can OPSS understand the extent and range of consumer decisions? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Consumer Behaviour How do consumer and construction products pose risk to vulnerable consumers and what methods can be employed to reduce the effects and exposure to unsafe products? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Supply Chains How can we quantitatively estimate the benefits of equal regulatory requirements on both bricks and mortar shops and online marketplaces selling consumer goods? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Supply Chains What knock‑on effects from trending technologies are emerging for supply chains; and how should UK product‑safety regulation and its enforcement adapt in response? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Supply Chains What evidence shows that trending technologies such as AI‑driven discovery and influencer marketing, are reshaping consumer behaviour and market demand across sector areas of interest? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Supply Chains What impact do we anticipate on product manufacturing from geopolitical disruption (for example around availability of materials or overseas manufacturing bases)? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Supply Chains How can we understand and quantify how supply chain operations are changing, and categorise the scale and natures of the challenges this might pose around assuring product safety? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Business Compliance Globally, what are regulators doing to support innovation and reduce regulatory burden for industry, how is success of any initiatives measured, and what would be the likely level of success when similar initiatives are applied to product safety and legal metrology in the UK? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Business Compliance What are the attributes displayed by businesses linked to the supply of non-compliant products in the UK, and can these be used to focus regulatory intervention? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Business Compliance How can we better estimate the administrative burden that product regulations place on businesses and enforcement bodies? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Business Compliance How do businesses in Northern Ireland operate differently (to those in Great Britain) regarding their compliance with product regulations implemented by the EU and the UK? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Business Compliance How impactful are non-regulatory approaches such as events, business engagement and communication strategies to OPSS’s reputation, business awareness and compliance? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Business Compliance What intervention methods are effective at changing the compliance with product safety regulation of business outside of the UK? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Business Compliance What intervention methods such as legislation, guidance and enforcement activities are most effective at supporting businesses to be compliant with OPSS relevant regulation? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Business Compliance What intervention methods such as legislation, guidance and enforcement activities are most effective at supporting businesses to be compliant with OPSS relevant regulation? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding How can we test the effectiveness of regulations on the safety of furniture and furnishings? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding How can we further increase confidence in the use of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and reduce reliance on animal studies in chemical safety testing of consumer products? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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