Electrical safety certification

Electrical safety is the requirement every market shares and each one tests in its own way. In the EAEU it is TR CU 004/2011, a certificate for most consumer products and a declaration for much industrial equipment, with the operating manual in Russian as part of the file. In the EU it is the Low Voltage Directive behind the CE mark. In the Gulf ECAS, SABER and the G-Mark test it to IEC-based GSO standards. Israel approves on CB reports or exempts by customs code, with 62368 TI now replacing IEC 60950-1 and 60065 for electronics. Canada assesses a connected lock as an electrical product, a radio device, a fire-relevant assembly and a data-holding device at once.

The IECEE CB Scheme is what lets one safety test travel. A CB test certificate and report from one accredited laboratory are accepted by bodies in more than 130 countries and converted into national certificates without retesting, six weeks or so for testing and certification. It is the basis of SII approval in Israel and of most ECAS files, and the luminaire standards under it are a family, IEC 60598-2 with a separate part per luminaire type. Adapting a product to another country’s plugs, voltage and labelling is where most projects meet their first real cost, and a European product may not satisfy Middle East requirements.

Four problems account for most stalled projects: not knowing which requirements apply, incomplete documentation, budgets set before the testing scope is known, and samples that arrive late or in packaging that fails. The articles below cover each market, the CB Scheme, common problems and the IT and lighting standards. Send the product, its voltage and any CB report and we will say which markets that report already opens.