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Washington — OSHA is seeking input on its proposal to delete 16 test standards from the agency’s Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory Program’s List of Appropriate Test Standards.
The NRTL Program “recognizes organizations that provide product-safety testing and certification services to manufacturers” to ensure they meet the requirements “of both the construction and general industry OSHA electrical standards.”
The agency’s NRTL requirements cover electrical products and 36 other types of products.
According to a notice published Sept. 12, the test standards were all withdrawn by the standards development organizations that issued them. OSHA lists the standards in Table 1 of the notice. They include International Society of Automation 12.12.01, “Nonincendive Electrical Equipment for Use in Class I and II, Division 2 and Class III, Divisions 1 and 2 Hazardous (Classified) Locations.”
The replacement standard for 12.12.01, per the table, is UL 121201. The other standards (14 from ISA and one from UL) don’t have replacements listed.
“OSHA notes that it has already added UL 121201 into the scopes of recognition for several NRTLs when the agency granted applications for expansion of those NRTL’s recognition to include UL 121201,” the notice states. “Therefore, OSHA is not proposing to add UL 121201 to the scopes of recognition of these NRTLs.”
Comments on the proposal are due Oct. 14.
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Original article published by Safety+Health an NSC publication