Office for Product Safety & Standards

Questions from the Office for Product Safety & Standards:

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Product Understanding What pre-and post-market monitoring methods can be used to identify, quantify and investigate emerging product safety issues in the UK consumer market from products introduced into UK markets from domestic and overseas sources? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding What product innovations are anticipated to be most significant in the near future, and what risks might those innovative products pose, based on their manufacture and foreseeable use? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding What horizon scanning methods are best suited to understanding regulatory challenges regarding consumer products and legal metrology technology that will come to market in the next five years, and why are these methods better than others? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding How can consumer detriment from receiving reduced quantities of products without consumers’ awareness, be meaningfully compared to detriment from unsafe products, including both physical and non-physical harms, to inform regulatory priorities and strengthen the evidence base for intervention? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding How can we conduct child-specific chemical risk assessments to ensure children are sufficiently protected from chemical health hazards in consumer products? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding How feasible is it to systematically assess and quantify diverse types of product-related harm spanning impacts on animals, property, human health, and ecological systems, within a single, unified risk assessment framework? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding How can we gather insights into injuries that are consumer and construction product related that the general public experience, but don’t require medical assistance? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding What existing research can inform understanding of psychological or other harms caused by non-compliant connected products? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding How can we measure the level of compliance with safety standards for consumer products sold in the UK? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Product Understanding Which products are currently associated with consumer harm across the UK, and to what extent can this harm be quantified? Are there identifiable trends or contributing factors that influence whether a product is likely to cause harm? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Sector Understanding What methodologies would support collecting accurate data to support an incident database of non-physical and physical hazards associated with network devices in “smart homes” (including assisted living “smart homes”)? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Sector Understanding What battery technologies are likely to come to market in the next two to five years for use in personal light electric vehicles (PLEVs) and in what way will these affect the performance of PLEVs including their safety performance? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Sector Understanding How can we harness potential benefits of technology advances across OPSS sectors while ensuring consumer safety? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Sector Understanding What best practice models exist globally for product regulation and how applicable/adoptable could they be in the UK given the UK’s current National Quality setup? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Sector Understanding How do other countries’ National Quality Infrastructure operate with respect to systems integration across National Quality Infrastructure institutes? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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Sector Understanding How do different regulators align priorities, share data, learn from each other when their regulatory remits overlap or operate in similar fields? Office for Product Safety & Standards, 2026
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