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  • What are the UK requirements for glass in furniture?

    Glass in furniture must be safe. The General Product Safety Regulations place a duty of care on manufacturers, producers and distributors to ensure products supplied to consumers are safe. In the case of glass in furniture enforcement authorities in the UK expect only safety glass to be used in tables and storage units. This can be shown through compliance with relevant standards

  • What are the General Product Safety Regulations and how do they affect me?

    The General Product Safety Regulations originally published in the UK in 1994 have been revised to reflect the changes introduced by the revised Directive published across the EU in 2004.

  • Wood dust: measure to manage

    Wood dust is an important health issue for the furniture industry. Duties exist to control exposure and monitoring forms an essential element of any programme of control

  • Health, safety and environmental legislation increases

    Manufacturers are struggling to keep abreast of health, safety and environmental legislation. FIRA can provide the solution

  • Noise in the workplace

    Noise at work legislation is being tightened. The majority of furniture sites will need to revise their noise surveys to ensure compliance

  • Are you sitting comfortably?

    The nature of office work can result in people spending prolonged periods of time in the seated position. It is vital therefore that any seat provides stable bodily support in a position that is comfortable over a period of time, physiologically sound and appropriate to the task or activity

  • COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations) Data sheet

    This data sheet outlines the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations with reagrd to timber and wood based products.

  • Furnishing the benefits of workplace noise reduction

    By researching the use of acoustically advanced composite technology in the design and manufacture of office furniture, a consortium led by FIRA International Ltd (Furniture Industry Research Association) hopes to help reduce noise in the working environment. The work is designed to identify materials suitable for use in office partitions, desks, cupboards, drawers and filing cabinets, to build prototypes and test their structural and acoustic performance.

  • What do I need to know to sell "Rise-Recliner" chairs in the UK?

    Back in 2000 a fatal accident occurred involving an 8 year old girl who became caught in the mechanism of a rise/recline chair. Following this, and in the absence of any European Safety Standard for this type of product, a decision was made to produce a British Standard to try to improve the safety of this type of product.

  • Fire safety requirements for mattress toppers, pads and protectors

    This article discusses the fire safety requirements for bedding products such as mattress protectors, pads and toppers

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