Canadian Standards Association founded in 1919, is the first in Canada to develop industry standards for non-profit organization. The market in North America, electronics, appliances and other products need to obtain safety certification. CSA is currently Canada's largest safety certification organization, is the world's most famous one of the security certificate. It on machinery, building materials, electrical appliances, computer equipment, office equipment, environmental protection, health care fire safety, sports and entertainment sectors to provide all types of product safety certification. CSA has thousands of manufacturers around the world provide a certification service, the 100 million every year with CSA logo products in North America market.

1992 years ago, by the CSA-certified products can only be marketed in Canada, while the products you want to enter the U.S. market, the United States must obtain certification. Now CSA International has been recognized by the U.S. federal government approved testing laboratory for the state. This means that Canada and the United States, according to the standard of your product testing and certification, while maintaining your certification by the Federal, state, provincial and local government recognition. With CSA effective product safety certification, you want to enter the world's most tenacious and broad North American market on very easy. CSA can help your products quickly and effectively into the United States and Canada. CSA International will apply for the certification process by eliminating the duplication of procedures to help manufacturers save time and money. For the vendors, have to do is make an application, provide a sample and pay a fee, and the resulting safety signs but can be federal, state, provincial, and local Los Angeles from New York to the recognition at all levels. CSA International will work together with vendors to provide a high quality, secure and reliable certification program. In North America and around the world, CSA people with integrity and skill to win people's trust.

CSA International has four laboratories in Canada. From 1992 to 1994, they all have access to "the United States Government Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration" (OSHA) official recognition. According to OSHA's rules, to gain this recognition, you can, as a nationally recognized testing laboratory, a series of products according to more than 360 U.S. ANSI / UL standards, testing and certification. The CSA International testing and certification of products, were identified as full compliance with standard requirements, can be sold in the market between the United States and Canada.

To obtain certification in North America is both time and save money only to complete an application, provide a sample, pay a fee. With the CSA, to help you step into the market between the two countries. CSA to facilitate the testing and certification services that excluded the need to obtain certification to repeat the two different tests and evaluation. This undoubtedly reduced the manufacturers in product certification, tracking, testing and re-testing costs, while saving valuable time and save a variety of different manufacturers and the trouble of dealing with certification bodies to achieve a multiplier effect.

CSA certification scope
CSA certification test focused on eight areas:
1, the survival of mankind and the environment. Including occupational health and safety, public safety, sports and entertainment equipment, environmental protection and health care technology.
2, electrical and electronic. Including the installation of electrical equipment for building regulations, all business and residential electrical and electronic products.
3, communications and information. Including accommodation processing systems, telecommunications and electromagnetic interference technology and equipment.
4 structures. Including building materials and products, civil engineering products, concrete, masonry, pipe fittings and architectural design.
5, energy. Including energy recovery and transfer, fuel combustion and safety equipment, nuclear technology.
6, transport and distribution systems. Including motor vehicle safety, oil and gas pipelines, processing and distribution of goods and offshore facilities.
7, material technology. Including welding and metallurgy.

CSA authentication method
CSA certification process great flexibility, depending on product, the method steps are not the same.
1, according to specifications. Specifications are done by each certification, both expensive and time-consuming, so the same purpose, a variety of different specifications, optional one or two representative so certified. Such as the 1-100 kW motor, you can do so.
2, according to the user's specific requirements, on a product to do authentication. Such as: industrial switch, according to the views of users, manufacturers and original design products differentiated products, according to user requests to do authentication.
3, the certification of large equipment. If large equipment is manufactured in several companies, you can assemble together, in the assembly sites certified.
4, according to people's intellectual, physical, field testing. If children can not open the packaging of drugs covered.

CSA commonly used authentication method in four steps:
1, the certification before the analysis. Submitting an application, provided by the applicant to analyze the adequacy of product information, sample compliance.
2, pre-test analysis. Teacher certification testing program to determine, to be a test program.
3, according to test procedures and projects.
4, analysis of laboratory tests. Certified engineers will test result analysis, and to meet the applicant.
If test results consistent with the requirements, certification that end, compliance certification can be issued to the applicant.