Personal Protective Equipment product certification

BSI is committed to helping PPE manufacturers meet and demonstrate their compliance with the relevant legislation.

With over forty years of unrivaled experience in the testing and certification of PPE products.  BSI are a notified body for many EU instructions and with UKAS accreditation. 


Impact Protection

Helmets
Head protection covers a wide range of products. This ranges from a basic impact helmet such as used by a pedal cyclist, to a sophisticated helmet with integrated respiratory and communications equipment.

Body Armour
When a product is called into action that saves, limbs, vital organs, and other body parts knowing that the product has been tested to conventional limits means everything. 


Respiratory, Hearing, and Eye Protection

Respiratory equipment
(RPE) test for protection against, smoke, dust to vapors, and oxygen deficiency.

Hearing protection
BSI has a notified body status and can test earmuffs, earplugs, earmuffs with electrical audio input, level dependant earmuffs.

Eye protection
Testing for personal eye protection equipment, welding filters, mesh face screens, sunglasses & swimming goggles


Protective Clothing

BSI testing against combined risks, flame retardant and high visibility warning clothing. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) protection clothes.

Glove and Footwear
BSI test protective gloves for firefighters, chemicals & micro organisms, footwear for firefighters, safety & occupational footwear.