Good People Currently, my employer is attempting to go with a single safety agency as both NCB and NRTL. We submitted a "test case" project, but a customer is having problems because the (different) NRTL that the end-item was submitted to will not accept components recognized by the NRTL (that provided component-level recognition) because "their follow-up service is not adequate".
In the U.S., OSHA, (an agency of the federal government) confers NRTL status; so what is the basis of one NRTL not allowing the use of components that were certified by another NRTL in the end-product that is being evaluated ? The evaluating engineer required our customer to perform additional testing and enter construction data into the FUS report, on a component that the customer does not manufactur. The engineer evaluating the end-use product did not say that the test reports or construction data in component's CB report and FUS report were not adequate, or that the data was incomplete. The re-evaluation and additional test and data requirements were based on the fact that the agency that performed the evaluation does not have "adequate" FUS audits. (And I personally have not noticed any significant differences for the three agencies that audit my factories.) I still do business with both of these agencies, and want to remain on good terms with both; but I am growing weary with NRTL and NCB "wars". I understand that the IECEE requires all NCBs to use each other's CB reports. Is there and equivalent requirement by OSHA that all NRTLs use others' FUS reports ? luck, Brian
