CSA Certification Introduction

CSA Canadian Standards Association (Canadian Standards Association) in short it was founded in 1919, is Canada's first industry standard for the development of non-profit organization. In North America the market of electronic, electrical and other products are required to obtain safety certification. CSA is currently Canada's largest safety certification organization, is the world's best-known security certification bodies. It on machinery, building materials, appliances, computer equipment, office equipment, environmental protection, fire safety, medical, sports and entertainment sectors to provide all types of product safety certification. CSA has thousands of vendors around the world to provide a certification service, each year hundreds of millions of products with CSA logo in the North American market.
1992 years ago, the CSA-certified products only in the Canadian market, the product you want to enter the U.S. market, the United States must also obtain the relevant certification. CSA International is now the U.S. federal government has been recognized as nationally recognized testing laboratory. This means that Canada and the United States, according to the standard of your product testing and certification, and ensure your certification by the Federal, state, provincial and local government recognition. With CSA effective product safety certification, you want to enter the world's most tenacious and broad North American market on a breeze. CSA can help your products quickly and efficiently into the United States and Canada. CSA International will apply for the certification process by eliminating the duplication of procedures to help manufacturers save time and money. For the vendors, have to do is make an application, provide a sample and pay a fee, and the resulting safety signs but can be federal, state, provincial, and local Los Angeles from New York to the recognition at all levels. CSA International will work together with manufacturers to provide a highly secure and reliable certification program. In North America and the world, CSA people are honest and skilled to win people's trust.
CSA International has four laboratories in Canada. From 1992 to 1994, they have access to "the U.S. government Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration" (OSHA) official recognition. According to OSHA rules, to gain this recognition, it can be recognized as a national testing laboratory for a range of products according to more than 360 U.S. ANSI / UL standards for testing and certification. By CSA International for product testing and certification, has been identified as fully compliant with standards, can be sold in the United States and Canada markets.
Obtain certification in North America not only saving time but also save money, simply complete an application, provide a sample, pay a fee. With the CSA, it can help you step into the two markets. CSA in this convenient testing and certification services, excluding certification required to obtain two different repeat testing and evaluation.This will undoubtedly reduce the manufacturers in product certification, inspection and re-testing to track the cost, but also saves valuable time and save a variety of different manufacturers and certification bodies to deal with the trouble, so as to achieve a multiplier effect.
CSA Marking is by the Canadian Standards Association Canadian Standards Association to apply log on, the unit recognized by the product's safety and authorization before they can attach CSA Marking on the product logo.
CSA is a nonprofit membership sponsor, its standard-setting include: health care technology, oil and gas pipeline systems, occupational safety, electrical and solar energy. CSA head office in Canada in addition to outside, while the Atlantic region, Kui Quebec regions, the central plains and western regions, the Pacific and other branches around the world have subsidiaries and overseas representatives.
CSA standards are voluntary in nature. Municipal, provincial and federal governments frequently use or reference in the management of CSA standard to replace them to develop their own standards. In this case, CSA will become a standard reference for the government specifications. Government or other organizations and associations may be required to comply with certain standards or specify a particular product must demonstrate proven to meet certain criteria. Which are based on each organization within their jurisdiction hopes to use the CSA standards and verification requirements of the job.
CSA Marking of the world's most famous landmark product safety approval, even if the non-enforced in many regions of the manufacturers have to get this mark as a customer would recommend the product safety of the important basis for many buyers will even specify the requirements CSA mark has been attached to purchase the product. Recently, the Canadian importer or manufacturer is required to obtain the CSA designated purchaser signs of increasing.
CSA certification purposes
CSA Canadian Standards Association is the abbreviation, it is Canada's largest testing certification organization as an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization primarily for the public, government, business and other product certification, testing and related to this standards development and information services. It is not only relevant departments under the Government of Canada's authorized certification programs in security, but also bear the quality aspects of performance testing.
CSA members come from all walks of life across Canada more than 7,000 volunteers and more than 2,200 members of the community sponsor, which more than 1,000 members of the Standards Committee, the spirit of brainstorming, a reasonable comprehensive views of the people, according to some program covers a wide variety of fiction materials, products, equipment, services, facilities, standards, requirements and guidelines. CSA standards are voluntary use, but federal, provincial and local governments are often used in the formulation of regulations and reference CSA standards, these standards will become the basis for government legislation that is mandatory. CSA has six local laboratory in Canada, based in Toronto. In the Far East, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong set up three offices at the same time, it also with Japan JMI, the Netherlands, KEMA, BSI British established a certification agency relationship.

CSA certification process

1, will complete the preliminary application form, together with all related products (including all electrical components and plastic materials), instructions and technical data be given to CSA International.
2, CSA International will be determined according to the specific circumstances of product certification costs, and then notify the applicant by fax company.
3, confirmed by the applicant company will send a formal notice of the application form and the notice includes the following requirements:
(1) after the signing of a formal application form, wire transfer certification costs (which can be paid in RMB) to the office.
(2) by notice to the test sample to the designated locations.
4, designated laboratories will carry out certification work on time.
5, certification testing is completed, applicants will be issued a preliminary report (Findings Letter), setting out in detail as follows:
(1) how to improve the product mix to meet the required standards.
(2) to be used to complete the certification report and other information.
(3) Please review the certified record of the applicant company (Certification Record) content of the draft
(4) CSA certification marks and to obtain the required marks method.
(5) products for the factory test (Factory Tests).
6, CSA International will apply the company's answer to the above fifth to be assessed.
7, and CSA International will prepare a report for reference and track the inspection and product certification report with the (Certification Report).
8, at this stage, in some cases, CSA International to the factory for the factory to the initial assessment (Initial Factory Evaluation), referred to as the IFE.
9, the last will, together with CSA International certification records (Certification Record) a copy of the certificate (Certification of Compliance) applications for authorization in its products with the CSA certification mark.
10, and CSA International applicants to sign a service agreement (Service Agreement), to represent the two sides agreed to CSA International for product to the factory test track. Applicants each year pay an annual fee (Annual Fee) to maintain the agreement.

CSA certified product range

CSA certification test focused on eight areas:
1, the survival of mankind and the environment. Including occupational health and safety, public safety, sports and entertainment equipment environmental protection and health care technology.
2, electrical and electronic. Installation of electrical equipment, including building regulations, various industrial and commercial and residential electrical and electronic products.
3, communication and information. Including residence processing systems, telecommunications technology and equipment and electromagnetic interference.
4, the building structure. Including building materials and products, civil engineering products, concrete, masonry, pipe fittings and architectural design.
5, energy. Including renewable energy and transfer, fuel combustion and safety equipment, nuclear technology.
6, transport and distribution systems. Including motor vehicle security, oil and gas pipelines, processing and distribution of goods and offshore facilities.
7, material technology. Including welding and metallurgy.
8, business and production management systems. Including quality management and foundation engineering.

CSA Certified ways and means

CSA certification program very flexible, depending on the product, the method steps are not the same.
1, according to the standard models. Such as the specifications are made for each certification, expensive and time-consuming, so for the same purpose, a variety of different specifications, optional one two representative to do authentication. Such as the 1-100 kW motor, can do so.
2, according to the special requirements of a product to do authentication. Such as: industrial switch, according to the views of users, manufacturers of products with the original design of the products are different, users can request to do authentication.
3, for large-scale equipment certification. Such as large equipment is manufactured in several enterprises, can be assembled together in the assembly locations for certification.
4, according to the person's mental, physical field trials. Drugs such as children can not open the package cover.
CSA commonly used authentication method in four steps:
1, the certification before the analysis. Application by the applicant, provided by the applicant to analyze the adequacy of product information, sample compliance.
2, pre-test analysis. Teacher certification test to determine the project, to be a test program.
3, according to the procedures and test the project.
4, lab-test analysis. Certified engineers will test the results of analysis, to meet with the applicant. If test results consistent with the requirements, certification that come to an end, the certificate can be issued to the applicant certification.

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