Consultation on the General Safety Requirement (GSR) for Construction Products

The Grenfell Tower tragedy in June 2017 claimed 72 lives and exposed a pervasive crisis in the United Kingdom’s construction products regulatory regime. The devasting loss of life laid bare failures in the mechanisms designed to safeguard homes and residents. The Construction Products Reform White Paper confirms the government’s ambitious programme of reforms that are essential for public safety, critical to unlocking long term investment and economic growth, reducing trade friction and boosting productivity, and to the delivery of high-quality homes, other buildings and infrastructure. The white paper sets out the government’s proposal to expand the current construction products regulatory regime by introducing a risk-based general safety requirement (GSR) for currently unregulated construction products. This con