The Certification laboratories such as UL, CSA, ETL, MET, etc. cannot hold a shipment. However, they can require that you stop shipping products with their certification mark = your choice, remove the certification mark or hold shipment until the lab allows you to use the certification label again). That is one of the basic elements of their "Follow Up Service Agreement". Be sure you understand what you are signing when you sign Follow Up Service agreements. In general, they authorize access to manufacturing facilities to inspect anything with their certification mark.
NOTE - OSHA has authorized NRTL's to reduce the number of annual Follow Up Service inspections from 4 to 2 for most categories. I would anticipate that this soon will be one of your prime considerations on selecting a Certification Lab = how many FUS inspections they require per year. Bill Bisenius ED&D [email protected] www.productsafet.com -----Original Message----- From: Sylvia Toma [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:39 PM To: Lay Siang Saw; [email protected] Subject: RE: product safety audit scenario Hello Alice, One scenario that an auditor can hold shipment is the system under audit employs a different power supply (different manufacturer name and/or model number) than the one stated in the Procedure or Critical Component list of the Test Report. Power supply is a critical component (since it contains hazardous voltages) and one cannot substitute a different power supply into the system without first notifying the agencies. The agencies need to conduct evaluation and testing on the alternate power supply. Sylvia From: Lay Siang Saw [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: product safety audit scenario Hi all, Can anyone share with me under what conditions an auditor is allowed to stop shipments ? Thanks,alice ---------------------- Forwarded by Lay Siang Saw/MY/Asia/Celestica on 02/18/2003 06:09 PM --------------------------- Lay Siang Saw 02/18/2003 10:50 AM This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
