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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. NRTL-2-92]

 

Canadian Standards Association

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of 
Labor.

ACTION: Notice of expansion of current recognition as a Nationally 
Recognized Testing Laboratory.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Agency's final decision on the 
Canadian Standards Association, Rexdale (Toronto) facility, application 
for expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing 
Laboratory (NRTL) under 29 CFR 1910.7.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Office of Variance Determination, NRTL Recognition Program, 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of 
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N3653, Washington, DC 20210.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Notice of Final Decision

    The Canadian Standards Association previously made application 
pursuant to section 6(b) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 
1970, (84 Stat. 1593, 29 U.S.C. 655), Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-
90 (55 FR 9033), and 29 CFR 1910.7, for recognition of its Rexdale 
(Toronto) facility as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (see 
57 FR 23429, 6/3/92; amended 57 FR 48804, 10/28/92), and was so 
recognized (see 57 FR 61452, 12/24/92).
    CSA applied for expansion of its current recognition as a 
Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory for five test standards 
pursuant to 29 CFR 1910.7 which was published in the Federal Register 
on December 10, 1993 (58 FR 64973). (See Exhibit 7.).
    Notice is hereby given that CSA's recognition as a Nationally 
Recognized Testing Laboratory for its Rexdale (Toronto) facility has 
been expanded to include the five test standards (product categories) 
listed below.
    Copies of all pertinent documents (Docket No. NRTL-2-92), are 
available for inspection and duplication at the Docket Office, Room N-
2634, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of 
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210.
    The address of the laboratory covered by this application is: 
Canadian Standards Association, Toronto Facility, 178 Rexdale 
Boulevard, Rexdale (Toronto), Ontario M9W1R3, Canada.

Final Decision and Order

    Based upon the facts found as part of the Canadian Standards 
Association Rexdale (Toronto) facility original recognition, including 
details of necessary test equipment, procedures, and special apparatus 
or facilities needed, adequacy of the staff, the application, 
amendments, and documentation submitted by the applicant (see Exhibit 
8. A.-D.), the OSHA staff finding including the original On-Site Review 
Report, as well as the evaluation of the current request (see Exhibit 
8. E.), OSHA finds that the Canadian Standards Association's Rexdale 
(Toronto) facility has met the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.7 for 
expansion of its present recognition to test and certify certain 
equipment or materials.
    Pursuant to the authority in 29 CFR 1910.7, the CSA Toronto 
(Rexdale) facility's recognition is hereby expanded to include the five 
additional test standards (product categories) cited below, subject to 
the conditions listed below. This recognition is limited to equipment 
or materials which, under 29 CFR Part 1910, require testing, listing, 
labeling, approval, acceptance, or certification by a Nationally 
Recognized Testing Laboratory. This recognition is limited to the use 
of the following five additional test standards for the testing and 
certification of equipment or materials included within the scope of 
these standards.
    CSA has stated that these standards are used to test equipment or 
materials which can be used in environments under OSHA's jurisdiction, 
and OSHA has determined that they are appropriate within the meaning of 
29 CFR 1910.7(c).

UL 1278--Movable and Wall- or Ceiling-Hung Electric Room Heaters
UL 1419--Professional Video and Audio Equipment
UL 1492--Audio and Video Equipment
UL 1963--Refrigerant Recovery/Recycling Equipment
ANSI/ASME B17.5--Elevators and Escalator Electrical Equipment

    The Canadian Standards Association Rexdale (Toronto) facility must 
also abide by the following conditions of this expansion of its 
recognition, in addition to those already required by 29 CFR 1910.7:
    This recognition does not apply to any aspect of any Canadian 
Standards Association program which is available only to qualified 
manufacturers and is based upon the NRTL's evaluation and accreditation 
of the manufacturer's quality assurance program;
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration shall be allowed 
access to CSA's facilities and records for purposes of ascertaining 
continuing compliance with the terms of its recognition and to 
investigate as OSHA deems necessary;
    If CSA has reason to doubt the efficacy of any test standard it is 
using under this program, it shall promptly inform the test standard 
developing organization of this fact and provide that organization with 
appropriate relevant information upon which its concerns are based;
    CSA shall not engage in or permit others to engage in any 
misrepresentation of the scope or conditions of its recognition. As 
part of this condition, CSA agrees that it will allow no representation 
that it is either a recognized or an accredited Nationally Recognized 
Testing Laboratory (NRTL) without clearly indicating the specific 
equipment or material to which this recognition is tied, or that its 
recognition is limited to certain products;
    All products certified within this program shall be tested and 
certified only at the Rexdale facility. Products which may have been 
previously evaluated at any of CSA's other facilities must be re-
evaluated at the Rexdale facility in order to be considered to have 
been approved under the NRTL program.
    In order to distinguish between products tested and certified by 
CSA under the OSHA/NRTL program at the Rexdale facility from all other 
CSA facilities or from non-NRTL programs, the following procedures 
shall be followed for all products tested and certified at the Rexdale 
facility under the OSHA/NRTL program:

    Where the CSA registered certification mark is utilized on a 
label on the product, the label will also bear the acronym ``NRTL'';
    The product shall also be clearly identified in the Directory of 
CSA Certified Products by using the ``NRTL'' acronym.

    CSA shall inform OSHA as soon as possible, in writing, of any 
change of ownership or key personnel, including details;
    CSA will continue to meet the requirements for recognition in all 
areas where it has been recognized; and
    CSA will always cooperate with OSHA to assure compliance with the 
letter as well as the spirit of its recognition and 29 CFR 1910.7.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This recognition will become effective on February 4, 
1994, and will be valid until December 24, 1997, (a period of five 
years from the date of the original recognition, December 24, 1992), 
unless terminated prior to that date, in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.7.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of January, 1994.
Joseph A. Dear,
Assistant Secretary.
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