> UL and/or CSA certification are mandatory within the electrical safety area, to > have access to the US and Canadian marked. Right ?
Yes. > I know there are some differences between them, the certification fee, the > certification-handling period and the number of audit/year. > > My questions are: > 1.Do they have the same status? UL by itself is not accepted in Canada. CSA by itself is not accepted in the US. > 2.What requirements do the end users/ buyers have, > do most of them prefer one of the approvals? I've only run into that problem with NRTLs other than UL and CSA for domestic (US) approvals and that was primarily with telco companies. > 3.Do we have to go for both of them? Yes. If you go to CSA, then tell them you have to have approvals for both Canada and the US. If you go to UL, then tell them you have to have approvals for both Canada and the US. It's up to you, 6 of one or a six-pack of another ... - Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- 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: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
