Schedule 11: Construction products regulations Paragraph 2 - General safety requirement Effect
This paragraph gives the Secretary of State the power to create regulations to ensure that construction products placed on the UK market are safe. The definition of safe is that a product under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use does not present any risk to the health of safety of persons or, if it does, the risk is as low as it can be compatible with using the product. "Use" includes storage, transportation or packaging. Reasonably foreseeable conditions will include circumstances in which the product might come under stress, for example in a fire.