Safety Standards and Compliance

As the leading provider of health, safety and wellbeing solutions we take our responsibility towards safety very seriously.

OnSite Support is both a British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) registered Safety Supplier and Verified Supplier on RISQS (Railway Industry Scheme Supplier: ID 1988).
This means we undertake to maintain or verify valid compliance certificates for all PPE and regulated equipment we offer.

The General Product Safety Regulations 2005 (GPSR) which requires all products to be safe in their normal or reasonably foreseeable usage.
Specifically for PPE we meet the requirements of PPE Regulation 2016/425 by ensuring that for all PPE products imported by us directly or indirectly from UK based manufacturers have correct test and compliance certification and declaration of conformity.

It should also be remembered that Regulation (EU) 2016/425 (as incorporated into UK law) sets out the essential health and safety requirements for PPE in the UK.

For each type of equipment there are a number of specific standards that apply understandably too many to comprehensively list here given the number of PPE categories but please see the attached as a guide to the most common standards that should be looked for in any product you look to purchase. PPE Standards Guide – revised 2024