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Potentially explosive atmospheres Employers are obliged to ensure the health and safety of their employees in potentially explosive atmospheres. The employer must implement necessary measures to ensure that work can be safely carried out in potent...

Work at Tukes Tukes offices in Helsinki, Tampere and Rovaniemi employ around 270 people. Most of the personnel work in specialist tasks that include monitoring, communication, development and international cooperation. Tukes is an specialist organ...

Responsible persons: good practices and appointment A responsible person, operation manager or operation supervisor refers to a person employed by the company and tasked with monitoring that the operation complies with the regulations. Table of Co...

Changes and Termination of Business Inform Tukes within a month if any of the following information submitted in the electrical contractor’s notification of operations changes: change of supervisor of electrical works, for example change of the de...

Forms The left-side menu takes you to our forms by branch in Word or Excel format. You may download them for electronic fill-in or print to be filled-in manually. Submit the completed forms together with all the required appendices to the address:...

Procurement and invitations to tender Procurement refers to purchasing or hiring goods and services from outside Tukes, or activities comparable to these. The single largest procurement group at Tukes is the purchasing of expert services: testing ...

General requirements for products in Finland Products must not pose a danger to the health or property of anyone. General safety requirements for consumer products and services are laid down in the Consumer Safety Act. The Consumer Safety Act is a...

Statutory periodic inspections of electrical equipment The periodic inspection of electrical equipment is one way of ensuring the safety and security of the use of electricity at a property. Electrical installations can sometimes be quite old, if ...

Organisation Tukes has five units : Chemicals, Industry, Products, FINAS, and Information and Development. Approximately 250 Tukes employees work at our offices in Helsinki, Tampere and Rovaniemi. Tukes operates under the guidance of several minis...

Single liaison office for market surveillance (Fipoint) Each EU Member State has a Single Liaison Office for market surveillance, which is responsible for certain tasks related to market surveillance at national and EU-level. In Finland, the task ...

Possessor of the electrical installation and the operation manager Table of Contents Table of Contents Close The possessor of the electrical installation and the operation manager play an important role in ensuring the safety of the electrical ins...

Personal data registers Table of Contents Table of Contents Close Supervision of products, services, institutions and equipment Tukes maintains registers on subjects of supervision falling within its remit, such as product importers, consumer serv...

Measuring the energy charged in electric vehicles When measuring the electric energy charged in electric vehicles, the requirements of the Measuring Instruments Act must be considered if charging is invoiced based on the measured amount of energy....

Articles of precious metals, jewellery and watches An entrepreneur in the precious metals industry can check this website for up-to-date requirements applicable to articles of precious metals and apply for a responsibility mark for their company. ...

Legislation on toys Children are a vulnerable user group. Thus, special attention is paid to the safety of toys on an international level. The European Toy Directive 2009/48/EC applies to toys. Toys introduced to the Finnish market must meet the r...

How to apply for a responsibility mark The resposibility mark is a mark stamped onto an article of precious metal that indicates who has manufacturer the article, who it is manufactured for, who is selling it or who has imported it into Finland. T...

Lifts are subject to various inspections in the course of their lifespan. A new lift is inspected during commissioning. After this, periodic inspections are carried out and lifts are also inspected following alteration works.

Toys The legislation on toy safety has been reformed. The new EU Regulation 2025/2509 on toy safety has been adopted and published in the Official Journal of the EU in November 2025. The regulation will apply from 1 August 2030. Articles 28-44 and...

Plans for opening a mine near my neighbourhood are in the works. What can I do? I heard a reservation notification has been made in my area. What does it mean? Will a mine be opened in my neighbourhood? A company that makes a reservation notificat...

Reporting serious undesirable effects (SUE) caused by cosmetics The responsible person and distributor of a cosmetic product are obliged to report serious undesirable effects caused by their products. The responsible person and distributor must re...