Asbestos in consumer products
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Guidance for consumers and businesses on consumer products containing asbestos.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Guidance for consumers and businesses on consumer products containing asbestos. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Supply chain assurance
- Joint statement from OPSS, UKHSA and HSE
- Consumer advice
- Disposal guidance for consumers
- Health information
- Businesses
- Product recalls
- Disposal guidance for businesses
- Product testing
- Workplaces and schools
- Asbestos safety in the workplace
- Early years settings and schools
- About this guidance
Source and licence
Office for Product Safety and Standards
AttributionOffice for Product Safety and Standards, ‘Asbestos in consumer products’ (updated 20 July 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026