Office for Product Safety and Standards Horizon Scan 1.0
A research report on future and emerging technologically driven changes relevant to OPSS.
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This is OPSS’s first horizon scan, a systematic method for assessing future risks and opportunities arising from technologically driven changes, to ensure that OPSS can optimise effective regulation for UK businesses, consumers and stakeholders in future.
The work comprised an initial assessment of 71 specific technologies of interest, using a blueprint methodology to support our future horizon scans. It was carried out in collaboration with Arup Foresight.
The report describes the methodology itself, the quality assurance and validation processes, and an overview of the outcomes. It includes the taxonomy in full and presents those technologies identified as being the most relevant for OPSS (20 in total). It is accompanied by 3 examples of the rapid evidence reviews conducted.
Our Horizon Scan 1.0 was designed to ensure that we can continue to build our horizon scanning capability as we focus on different elements of the changing regulatory and policy landscape.