Building Local Authority Capability in Product Safety, Legal Metrology and Construction Products

The Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS) is part of the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) was created in January 2018 to deliver consumer protection and to support business confidence, productivity and growth. We regulate a wide range of products with a focus on their safety and integrity. We work with local, national and international regulators, with consumer representatives and with businesses to deliver effective protections and to support compliance.

Our mission is to be a trusted product regulator for the UK. This means protecting people and places, enabling business to thrive and empowering consumers to make good choices. We will be a leader of good regulatory practice and a champion of local regulation.

OPSS is:

Further information about OPSS can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-product-safety-and-standards

OPSS supports national and local coordination of regulation to join up regulatory delivery in its policy areas.

The project will deliver a programme of activities (training and e-learning packages) to develop skills and capability in Local Authority Regulatory Services (LARS, Trading Standards officers in England, Wales and Scotland and Environmental Health officers in Northern Ireland) and support coordination of national and local regulation. Each activity will have a defined learning outcome.

As a guide activities will include practical & taught, in person, e- learning and on line interactive courses including :

During the lifetime of the contract the supplier will be required to evaluate learning and continually assess future needs to inform development of further programmes to be delivered each year.