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The BSIF British Safety Industry Federation is the UK’s Leading Trade Body for the Safety Industry. We currently represent Manufacturers, Distributors, Importers and Service Providers within Safety & Health markets. We are passionate about the Safety & Health, the needs of the UK market, our members and the country’s work force. We are committed to our aims of remaining a positive force for good. Our unique position in the market, plus active input with Government departments puts us firmly at the forefront of influencing legislation. This presentation is to help you, as potential end users of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and Safety Equipment take on board some of the changes in the supply chain of PPE. Since April 2018 we have a new Regulation covering the supply of Personal Protection Equipment. At the end of this presentation you will have a better understanding of this important industry sector and I will show how you too can be involved in its future

The BSIF currently lead 11 Product/Working Groups.– Through these our members help to influence our Safety Standards – Notified Bodies, Test Houses and Members attend. Head Protection Measurement & Instrumentation Spills & Containment Test & Certification Respiratory Protection Skin Protection WG Height Safety Eye & Face Safety Footwear Hearing Protection Protective Glove & Clothing “Listen Today Hear Tomorrow” “In Your Hands” “Clean Air Take Care” “Bump Guidance” “Tackling work related Respiratory disease”

“ Supporting all those who keep people safe and healthy at work & passionate to ensure that safety and health is recognised as a positive force for good”

280+ Corporate member organisations

Work in cooperation with

HSL/HSE - Health & Safety Executive EA - Environment Agency DiT – UK Trade & Investment BEIS – Business Energy & Industry Strategy TS – Trading Standards IOSH - Institute of Safety & Health SGUK – Safety Groups UK ROSPA – Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents IIRSM – International Institute of Risk & Safety Management BOHS – British Occupational Hygiene Society BSC - British Safety Council

• 2018 4 meetings 27 attendees
• Creation of HSG website **http://www.dev.bsif-heightsafetygroup.org/
• Initiated & released Bump guidance
• Extremely active group attempting to embrace and approve the “installer” market

capability

• Created the PFI Apprenticeship now on the system finalising training requirements and

BSIF’s role Created the route to Registered Safety Supplier Scheme qualification / acceptance – “Timeline”

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Members

A Greater Purpose

Best Practice Quality

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Suppliers Quality

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Product

UK Occupational End Users

To rehabilitate the perception & importance of “Health & Safety” The media and the country recognises safety and health for what it is and that is a positive force for good The UK becomes “Proud to be Safe”

2016

BSIF has a new status as a ‘Primary Authority’ with Trading Standards plus its existing role with the HSE also as ‘Competent Authority’ This puts the BSIF in the best position raise the bar of

• ccupational Health & Safety for everyone.

UK Trading Standards and the HSE have a massive breadth of product responsibilities with ever shrinking resources Unless trends are identified the current system can be reactive. Safety falls under “Product Safety” specialisations. All this does is open the door on non compliant PPE to enter our country along with counterfeit …

Fined £63,000

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• 1. Unknown Filter P3 Counterfeit NB # 1094
• 2. Genuinely Dangerous Filter
• 3. Chinese copy of high end full face mask

BSIF Primary Authority in action: Reported to Trading Standards 3 Masks – 3 different supply chains - all now removed from the market

• 1. Safety Distributor
• 2. Hygiene Distributor
• 3. Amazon

The PPE Directive 89/686/EEC The PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425 Directive Regulation

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The PPE Directive 89/686/EEC

• Applicable for 25 years
• One of the first ‘New Approach’ Directives
• Preceded the ‘New Legislative Framework’
• Overtaken by technology and needed improvements
• In revision for over 5 years
• New Regulation adopted in February 2016

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The New PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425

• In force from 21 April 2016
• Applicable from 21 April 2018, when Directive was repealed
• Products CE marked under the Directive can be supplied until 21 April

2019

• EC type-examination certificates remain valid until
• 21 April 2023 unless they expire before that date
• All new EU type certificates will be valid for 5 years. Under the old

Directive this was left open ended? Which is good BUT there is no need for products to be reviewed if no changes have occurred.

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Scope and Product Categories

• Product categories I, II and III redefined
• No product examples; categories defined by risk
• Some products change categories from II to III

(Hearing protection, Life preservers)

• Distance selling (online) subject to this Regulation

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• New term: ‘Economic Operators’

– Manufacturer, Authorised Representative, Importer or Distributor

• With new obligations

– Record keeping and verification obligations up and down the supply chain Importers and Distributors who market PPE under their own name or brand assume all the obligations of a Manufacturer

Under the Old PPE Directive 89/686/EEC Manufacturers had all the legal responsibilities of product compliance ongoing, and was very much open to national interpretation. The new ‘Regulation’ has shifted up several gears with new Legally binding Responsibilities and Obligations :

General Obligations on Economic Operators (the people you buy from)

• An EU Declaration of Conformity (DoC) must accompany each item of PPE, or

include a web address where the DoC can be accessed. The user instructions must be with the product also & in the language of the end user country

• Economic operators must keep the technical documentation and the DoC for

10 years after the PPE has been placed on the market

• Manufacturers shall ensure that procedures are in place for series production

to remain in conformity

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Obligations on Distributors

• Shall act with due care.
• Shall verify that the PPE bears the correct markings and is accompanied by the

required documents in a language that can be easily understood by the consumers.

• Shall not make PPE available in the market if the PPE is considered not to meet

the essential health & safety requirements.

• Shall ensure that records of conformity are kept for 10 year period
• Shall ensure transport and storage does not jeopardize the PPE’s conformity
• Shall take corrective actions in case PPE is considered to be non-compliant and

inform the competent authorities in case PPE presents a risk

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Conformity Assessment Procedures

• All certificates have a 5 year validity from 21st April

2018

• By 21st April 2023 all certificates will require renewal
• By 21st April 2023 all products will be certified to the

lastest version of their standard

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All these updates are very good as long as there is adequate, effective Market Surveillance in place. Unfortunately our area of concern has very little, meaning that right now the door to counterfeit and non conforming PPE/Safety Equipment is wider than ever before. That’s where The BSIF has stepped in.

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Registered Safety Supplier Scheme

“Anyone can sell Safety but you shouldn’t buy Safety from just Anyone”

Registered Safety Supplier Scheme

The Shield of Supplier credibility

• RSSS Scheme members will have one product item from their main product line randomly selected

and tested once a year (One test from one applicable standard clause) The results of which will be fed back to the individual client only - to act upon in the event of a failure.

• We will work with our members to help De-select non compliant goods in our market, In doing so

we will ensure Scheme members are selected to provide Good safe product.

How many UK business “sell safety products” 1,000’s ……. So good, some not so ….Tens of thousands of products – Employing thousands of

• Individuals. What Qualifies a business to Sell Safety an Health

Products? Nothing is the simple answer. But not any more, now we have the….

• The Safe Supply Accreditation Course for customer facing staff, which will illustrate their expertise

and knowledge to the end user directly.

• Users of safety & health products deserve good products and capable suppliers and support. Users

will get that from a BSIF Registered Safety Supplier.

• An E-Learning module course, with a BSIF OFQUAL certified course qualification at the end of a

successful candidate entry – letting every possible client know that you’re supplying goods from a position of knowledge and care.

• Upon successful completion then Candidates can go forward to complete further expertise course in

more ‘In depth’ areas of Safety/PPE – Fall arrest, Safety Footwear etc.

• Members can then have; not only the expertise on hand in all areas, but the proof to display this

confidence to their end users.

2017 & Beyond. EDUCATION IS KEY

The Safety Supply Accreditation

The new PPE regulation requires that the supply chain, importers and distributors have clearly defined

• bligations and responsibilities for quality and management systems which we audit. As you can see this

is supported by Trading Standards through which we have a Primary Authority Agreement

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What you can help to do? Be aware of the new Regulations and support our efforts to provide you with market surveillance

End User Companies, through their own Risk analysis process should by now be looking at sourcing supply of PPE from Regulation 2016/425 compliant companies. This is the safest option for them, to trade with for their PPE/Safety needs. The Registered Safety Supplier Scheme allows these buyers to select compliant companies from within membership ranks of the RSSS. Our listings of compliant companies that display the shield is growing right now. But we need your help to spread awareness. We recently opened a new website to help you to find PPE Regulation compliant companies.. Not only does it help you find a supplier but it offers all end user companies a way to support us, in so doing to benefit from a unique free reciprocal

This great new site is to help you find our UK Registered Safety Suppliers and for you to ask us any hard to find legislative answers to your questions. We also can list you as End Users on this site totally for FREE. This unique reciprocal helps us to raise the bar by lending your support.

www.registeredsafetysupplierscheme.co.uk

Registered Safety Supplier Scheme Member Supporters

Thank you