Washington — OSHA is deleting more than a dozen standards from its Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory Program’s list of appropriate test standards and modifying the “scope of recognition” of several NRTLs.
Labs that participate in the program are hired by manufacturers to provide safety testing and certification for products that, under OSHA standards, are required to be certified.
In a notice published Feb. 3, OSHA says 16 standards were chosen for deletion because the standards development organizations that had issued them had previously withdrawn them.
The agency 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 previously added UL 121201 “into the scopes of recognition for several NRTLs.”
The agency is expected to update its website with the changes to each NRTL’s scope of recognition. OSHA will also add the 16 standards to its Standards No Longer Recognized webpage.
OSHA first proposed the changes to the list of appropriate test standards in a notice published in September.
