Own-label safety footwear

Your brand on the box. Your name on the certificate.

Putting your own name on safety footwear makes you the legal manufacturer. That is not a formality — it decides who signs the Declaration of Conformity, whose name appears on the Type Examination Certificate, and who answers to market surveillance if a product is challenged.

We build the range and we put that paperwork in order before you sell a single pair.

What “legal manufacturer” actually means

Under EU Regulation 2016/425 and the UK PPE Regulations 2002, the manufacturer is whoever places the product on the market under their own name or trademark. Not the factory that made it. If you private-label safety footwear, you are the manufacturer in law, and:

  • You sign the Declaration of Conformity
  • The Type Examination Certificate must be in your name, not the factory’s
  • You hold, or have full access to, the Technical File
  • You retain that documentation for ten years after the last unit is placed on the market

A Declaration of Conformity signed against a certificate that sits in the factory’s name is not valid. It is the most common mistake in own-label programmes, and it usually surfaces at the worst possible moment.

What we do about it

Certificate in your name

The factory holds the original Type Examination Certificate. We arrange issuance into your company’s name through the certification body, and we open that process alongside sampling rather than after it, so certification and samples run together instead of consecutively.

Where a model has been adapted enough to need reassessment rather than a straight reissuance, we tell you before you commit, not after.

Technical File prepared and handed over

Specifications, drawings, test reports, standards applied, risk assessment, production description, labels and instructions for use. Assembled and handed to you complete, because you are the one who has to produce it if an authority asks.

Declaration of Conformity drafted for your signature

Drawn up in your company’s name, citing the correct regulation for your market and referencing your certificate number. You sign it. We do not — we have no regulatory standing in your declaration, and a supplier who offers to sign it for you is telling you something about how they work.

Selling into the EU: what you will need to arrange

If you are a UK company placing product on the EU market, you must appoint an EU Authorised Representative established in a member state, under Article 7 of Regulation 2016/425. Without one the product cannot legally be placed on the EU market.

That appointment is yours to make — it is a legal relationship between you and your representative, and we are not a party to it. We raise it early because it carries a lead time and a recurring cost, and it is routinely discovered far too late.

CE, UKCA and Northern Ireland

CE marking covers Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the EU in a single mark. Under the Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment) Regulations 2024, CE is accepted on the GB market indefinitely.

UKCA is also accepted in Great Britain — but not in Northern Ireland, which remains aligned with EU rules for goods under the Windsor Framework. A UKCA-only mark leaves a gap in your own domestic market.

For almost every UK brand owner, CE is the simpler choice. We will tell you if your case is one of the exceptions.

Standards

Ranges are developed to EN ISO 20345:2022+A1:2024. Two points matter to anyone still specifying against the 2011 edition.

Slip resistance is now a baseline requirement

The SRA, SRB and SRC markings no longer exist. Every model certified to the current standard has passed the slip resistance test as a condition of certification. A supplier still quoting SRC at you is quoting a withdrawn marking.

Perforation resistance markings now identify the insert

S3 and S7 without a suffix mean a metal insert tested with a 4.5mm nail. Non-metallic textile inserts are marked S3L or S7L where tested with a 4.5mm nail, and S3S or S7S where tested with the finer 3mm nail — the more demanding test. Our lightweight models use textile inserts, so they certify as S1PS, S3S or S7S rather than S1P, S3 or S7.

This matters commercially. A tender written for “S3” and a product marked “S3S” can be rejected by a buyer who does not know the marking changed. We supply the wording that prevents it.

Bring us a price point and a market.

We’ll come back with specific models, costings, and a clear statement of what the compliance route looks like for your business.

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