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Legal Metrology and Product Safety Training Programme
CTSI, in collaboration with FAAB Training, is pleased to announce that it is working in partnership with the Office for Product Safety and Standards to deliver a programme of Product Safety and Legal Metrology training to all local authority practitioners throughout the UK.
Future training courses
We are in the process of putting together a programme for 2024. If you have any suggestions for training that you would like us to organise, face-to-face training, webinar or bitesize, or you would like to request a training course to be repeated please do so via this form.
Further information/notification of training
If you would like to be added to our mailing list to find out about future OPSS/CTSI training; would like more information about any of the courses or would like to be advised when bookings go live for a particular event, please complete this form.
General Enquiries
If you have any other enquiries please email [email protected] with details including your name, contact telephone number and which course(s) you are interested in.
For details about Intellectual Property training that CTSI is running in partnership with the Intellectual Property Office please use this link.
Courses will be available here once dates are confirmed. All training is offered free-of-charge to local authority practitioners.
Software Digitalisation in Metrology and AI TrainingThis training is for trainee Weights and Measures Inspectors and those qualified officers trying to understand how software is controlled in modern legal metrology instruments. Delegates will get an understanding of how the MIRs, NAWI Regulations and OIML D31 control software in weighing and measuring instruments. Face-to-face training in London EC4R 3TD
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Book Now1 July 2024 10.00-16.00 |
Button BatteriesThis practical webinar is designed to build on practitioners existing knowledge of product safety specially relating to button and coin batteries and PAS 7055 2021 Button and coin batteries – Safety requirements – Specification. Enhancing skills to advise businesses in relation to product safety as well as performing market surveillance, investigating unsafe products, and managing risk through corrective actions to minimise the risk of harm to consumers. Online training |
Book now9 July 2024 10.00-13.00 Fully booked to go on the waiting list please email [email protected]
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Cosmetics – Refresh and Update of Key Principles in Great BritainThis webinar is relevant to those new to cosmetics and those wishing to refresh or build on existing knowledge. The webinar will have relevance for assessing products at the border and in-market and also for providing advice to businesses. This webinar is designed to both revise and build on a practitioners’ existing knowledge of the Cosmetics Regulation as applied in Great Britain and to build capability and confidence when investigating products in-market or when arriving at the border. Online training |
Book now16 July 2024 10.00-12.00 Fully booked to go on the waiting list please email [email protected]
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Bitesize Learning - General Product Safety RegulationsThis training will provide an overview of the horizontal legal framework for products, and how this overlaps with vertical product legislation. It will provide a detailed examination of what may be considered a ‘safe’ product in the context of risk and product standards and an examination of the obligations of economic operators before and after placing a product on the market. Online training |
Book now1 July 2024 10.00-12.00 Limited places |
Practical Bulk Fuel TrainingThis training will provide an introduction to MIR bulk fuel legislation, regulation of reference meters and health and safety near vehicles. There will also be a practical session to include an explanation of a reference meter test rig, inspection and testing of a bulk fuel tanker and a physical examination of a vehicle. Face-to-face training, Warwick CV35 7DP. |
Book now22 July 2024 09.30-16.30 (Places still available) 23 July 2024 09.30-16.30 (23 July 2024 fully booked to go on the waiting list please email [email protected]. |
Introduction to the Packaged Goods Regulations 2006The course is an introduction to the Packaged Goods Regulations 2006. It will consider some of the statistical principles necessary to understand the Regulations and will have a detailed look at each of them and what they mean to an Inspector of Weights and Measures. There will be an explanation of how to carry out a practical weights and measure check and the paperwork that can be used for this. Face-to-face training, Basildon SS15 6TH |
Book now3 July 2024 9.30-16.00 Fully booked to go on the waiting list please email [email protected]. |
Introduction to Construction ProductsThis webinar is relevant to officers requiring a refresher or an introduction to the topic. Course content will include understanding OPSS as a national regulator; scope of the Constructions Products Regulations; understanding of the essential requirements; awareness of interventions; understanding of roles of other regulators. Online training |
Book now17 July - 10.00-12.00 18 July - 10.00-12.00 30 July - 10.00-12.00
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Market Surveillance and EnforcementThis course is aimed at Product safety practitioners, at all levels of experience. Course content will include learning about the purpose of regulating a market, asking how product safety is regulated and what effect does this have on the market, finding out the difference between market surveillance and market enforcement, looking at mechanisms and tools for assessing market and product risk and asking what are options for regulatory response when this is considered intolerable and looking at risk management and types of corrective actions. Online training |
Book now11 Sept 2024 10.00-1200 |
Practical testing of Liquid Fuel Measuring Instruments (LMFIs)This course is aimed at Trainee Weights and Measures Inspectors, W&M Inspectors looking to refresh their competence. Course content will include the legal definition of LFMIs, legislative regimes controlling LFMIs, essentials of Measuring Instruments Regulations, conformity assessments, practical software issues and practical testing of LFMIs. Face-to-face training, Bristol BS16 7FR |
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3 September 2024 09.30-16.30 |
Fireworks (Pyrotechnics Articles) WebinarThis course is aimed at Officers who enforce the Explosives Regulations 2014 and the Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015 in relation to pyrotechnic articles in general and fireworks in particular. Course content will include updating and refreshing the knowledge of experienced officers and acting as an introduction to officers new explosives enforcement. On-line training
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Book now8 October 2024 10.00-12.00 |
Technical Documentation Examination WebinarThis webinar is for local authority product safety practitioners This course will address the science of conformity assessment and the documentation which arises from it (also called technical documentation) with a view to equipping officers with the knowledge and skills necessary to request and scrutinise such documentation for the purposes of risk analysis and regulatory decision making. On-line training |
Book now22 July 2024 9.30-15.30 23 July 2024 9.30-15.30 Additional date to be advised. |
PAS 7050 & 7100This webinar is for local authority trading standards officers. The course will enable practitioners to gain practical experience in a workshop environment of PAS 7050 & 7100 and how to apply in a practical setting. To give an understanding of risk assessment and to be able to support businesses with the implementation of PAS 7050 & 7100. On-line training |
Book now5 July 2024 10.00 -15.00 8 July 2024 10.00 -15.00 12 July 2024 10.00 -15.00 9 Sept 2024 10.00 -15.00 10 Oct 2024 10.00 -15.00 |
