On the Road to Global Product Safety Approval

摘要

Product safety seems like a very straight forward concept—a product should cause no harm. But if you want to sell products in many markets around the world, the concept can become complicated as you try to meet the safety requirements of individual countries. For electrical product safety standards in the United States and Canada, most people are familiar with Underwriter Laboratories (UL) and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA). The UL safety standard that applies to information technology equipment (ITE), for example, is UL1950. A similar CSA standard is CSA950. In this instance, a binational standard, UL1950/CSA950, exists.