Trading Standards officers play an important role in regulating product safety.

We achieve this by:

• inspecting, sampling and testing consumer products
• seizing and destroying unsafe products
• prosecuting the most serious offenders.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have produced guidance on general product safety entitled 'The General Product Safety Regulations 2005 - Guidance for businesses, consumers and enforcement authorities' which can be viewed on their website at: www.bis.gov.uk/files/file22713.pdf

Advice on specific areas of product safety can be found below: