Thanks for that link George. That was a quick/concise list
that I was looking for. To get the information you mentioned (what the scope
of each CO is), you go to the link that I mentioned
http://www.scc.ca/search-front/index.html
<http://www.scc.ca/search-front/index.html> , click on accreditations and
then certification orgs, and type in the name of the Lab you are interested
in, for the sake of argument, if you type "MET", a list of all related links
for MET Laboratories will show up. You should have a link to a MS Word
document, which if you click on, will show you the scope of our laboratory,
which includes all electrical equipment, (which includes CSA C22.2 No 950).
Similar results would be obtained if you typed in the name for all the other
COs.
SCC is a bit more broad as they typically accredit labs for
types of equipment (i.e. all electrical products etc.) vs. OSHA/NRTL which
accredits based by standard. If you combine the NRTL list with the SCC
list, by my count (correct me if I am wrong) you come up with about 5 labs
(MET, CSA, Intertek, Entela, and UL) that can provide you with US & Canadian
certifications (including UL1950/CSA C22.2 No 950, among others) that from
the legal aspect are equal. Hope this helps to answer your question.
Kevin Robinson
Project Engineer/QA
MET Laboratories
Phone: (410) 354-3300x361
Fax: (410) 354-3313
E-Mail: krobin...@metlabs.com <mailto:krobin...@metlabs.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: geor...@lexmark.com
[SMTP:geor...@lexmark.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 10:01 AM
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: RE: NRTL acceptance
Kevin,
Thanks for the website pointer. I found the site
nearly impossible
to use via the search function. I got no hits for
COs no matter
what I tried, including UL and Underwriters
Laboratories. Somehow
I stumbled on to the following site which DOES list
all COs.
http://www.scc.ca/certific/colist.html
There are 20 SCC accredited COs listed, including
CSA, UL, ITS, and
MET. Now, back to the original question. Who knows
which of the
20 listed COs can authorize the use of a mark
indicating compliance
with CAN/CSA 22.2 950-95 for the safety of ITE, i.e.
legally
equivalent to the CSA mark?
George
---------------------- Forwarded by George
Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark on 11/23/99
09:34 AM ---------------------------
krobinson%metlabs....@interlock.lexmark.com on
11/23/99 08:54:51 AM
Please respond to
krobinson%metlabs....@interlock.lexmark.com
To:
emc-pstc%majordomo.ieee....@interlock.lexmark.com
cc: (bcc: George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject: RE: NRTL acceptance
You can check out the SCC website at
www.scc.ca
<http://www.scc.ca> , click on "accreditations" and
then "certification
orgs" and type in the name of your favorite test lab
(or your least favorite
as the case may be :-) )to see if they are a CO.
You can try a general
search for "laboratories" but it did not tun up all
of the laboratories that
I knew were CO's, I had better luck searching for
specific laboratories.
Kevin Robinson
Project Engineer/QA
MET Laboratories
Phone: (410) 354-3300x361
Fax: (410) 354-3313
E-Mail: krobin...@metlabs.com
<mailto:krobin...@metlabs.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: geor...@lexmark.com
[SMTP:geor...@lexmark.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 8:02 AM
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: RE: NRTL acceptance
S. William,
Thanks for the words on COs and TOs and SCCs.
Apparantly UL
is one or more of these, as the c-UL mark is legally
acceptable
in Canada. Now, what other COs has the SCC
accredited to issue
an approved Canadian mark? Not CSA, but
alternatives to CSA?
George
Forwarded by George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark on
11/23/99 07:57 AM -----
swilliam%apcc....@interlock.lexmark.com on 11/22/99
05:02:15 PM
To: George_Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark@LEXMARK
emc-pstc%majordomo.ieee....@interlock.lexmark.com
Subject: RE: NRTL acceptance
George, Canada is not as straight forward as that.
There is not
a mutual agreement. In order for a lab to issue a
Canadian Approval
Mark, the lab must be accredited as a CO(Certifying
Organization)
by the SCC(Standards Council of Canada). The CO must
use data that
has come from a TO(Testing Organization) that is
also accredited by
the SCC. Most labs that issue their Canada Mark are
both a CO and
TO so it is very easy for them. The critical item is
that the
product has to have been tested against the relevant
Canadian National
Standard(very easy for ITE as 1950 is a joint
standard).
If you want to do everything by the book, your US
Mark should be from
an NRTL certified by OSHA to the standards that
apply to your product
and the Canadian Mark must be from a CO accredited
by the SCC.
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