Building Safety Update

The Construction Products Association (CPA) has worked with the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) to publish a new guide on meeting the Declaration of Performance requirements under the Construction Products Regulation 2011, which is a standardised way of communicating how construction products perform.

The guide explains the obligations that apply to manufacturers, importers and distributors when creating a Declaration of Performance, including the information it must contain and how it should be supplied, to help users make informed decisions about which products are suitable for particular projects. There is also a template Declaration of Performance that manufacturers can use for their products to improve consistency across the industry.

Each quarter, the OPSS publishes details of its enforcement actions under the Construction Product Regulations 2013, and companies should be checking to ensure that the products they are using or specifying have not been subject to any enforcement action.