PSNet, including George
There are instances in which installed equipment has been reviewed
by local inspectors and required to be Listed.
In one instance a contractor was providing a complete turn-key TV
studio. He ordered the installed, cord connected equipment to be deliverd
concurrantly with the construction of the facility. The local inspector
saw the boxes of equipment and looked thru it; he red-tagged all equipment
not Listed. There was equipment from dozens of manufacturers there. For
the equipment that my employer provided, we sent a Product Safety engineer
there for a week to walk the City of LA test lab folks thru each piece of
equipment and used our local service center to modify any non-compliant
equipment.
Here in the Silicon Forest, the State of Oregon has put the
semiconductor manufacturing plants on notice that all installed equipment
must be Listed/3rd party certified. This has been in place for several
years and includes quite a bit of Field Labeling for equipment which
arrives without prior certification. We understand that other states which
also manufacture semiconductor devices are talking to the State of Oregon
to see how they might implement such a program; I don't know the status of
the programs in states such as Washington, California and Texas.
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Peter E Perkins
Principal Product Safety Consultant
Tigard, ORe 97281-3427
+1/503/452-1201 phone/fax
[email protected] email
visit our website:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/peperkins
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