Canadian Standards Association (CSA) is a non for profit organization accredited for Standard Council of Canada (SCC) to develop Canadian codes and standards. Electrical equipment sold in the market and installed in Ontario shall bear a CSA label which means they have been manufactured and tested according to the relevant CSA standard.
Custom
made electrical equipment that are not type tested for mass production, can be
factory tested or field tested by CSA, ESA (Electrical Safety Authority in
Ontario) or other testing and inspection companies accredited by SCC.
ESA is
the electrical safety authority in Ontario responsible for the inspection and
approval of all electrical installations in the province.
Conformance
with CSA is generally included in the specifications prepared for electrical
equipment. However, CSA sticker is not mandatory for high voltage equipment.
For high
voltage electrical equipment, the following two provisions are generally
included in the specifications in order to meet the code requirements:
1- The
high voltage equipment name plate shall include the CSA and/ or other
internationally recognized standard the equipment is manufactured and tested
to.
2- The
control panel(s) shall bear a sticker of an accredited testing facility
(CSA or others) to verify the compliance with the applicable CSA standard.
In some cases, the
requirement of a CSA blue sticker is added to the purchase order to comply with
the second provision above.
The Blue Sticker
indicates that the electric product is tested and meets CSA Group Special
Publication SPE-1000. As such, the control panel should have blue sticker
otherwise, the product does not meet PO requirement.
Here is the typical
sample of blue sticker affixed on control panel.
CSA Blue
sticker is a special inspection label which indicates that the electric,
non-healthcare product was tested and has met CSA Group Special
Publication SPE-1000, Model Code for the Evaluation of Electrical Equipment,
and the Canadian Electrical Code for installations and use. However, the
CSA blue sticker is one of the labels that can be used to ensure the control
panel meets the relevant code requirements.
There is a CSA red sticker/ label - shown below- that can also be used for this application. CSA Red sticker is another special inspection label which indicates that the control panel was tested and has met CSA Group Special Publication SPE-1000, Model Code for the Evaluation of Electrical Equipment, and the Canadian Electrical Code for installations and use.
As
stated above, there are a number of facilities that can inspect the control
panel(s) of high voltage equipment and provide their relevant sticker which
would be acceptable by ESA.
According to ESA product approval card, the recognized certification markings are as follows:
According
to the same document the following are the recognized panel-only field
evaluation markings:
For
example, for any HV transformer installed in Ontario, recognized inspection
stickers would be needed for control panel(s) only. As far as the control panel
is certified and the transformer nameplate refers to the applicable standards
the transformer is built and tested to, the transformer would meet the
requirements and will be approved and pass the inspection by the local ESA
inspector.
Orange
sticker issued by Electrical Safety Authority (ESA), or stickers issued by QPS
or Entela depicted above can also be used in lieu of a CSA blue sticker and
will be acceptable by local ESA inspector at site.
The
certification agencies recognized by ESA are as follows:
Canadian Standards Association (CSA)Curtis-Straus LLCElectrical Safety Authority Field Evaluation (ESAFE)FM ApprovalsIAPMO R&T, IncIntertek Testing ServicesLab Test Certification IncMet Laboratories Inc. (MET)NemkoNemko CanadaNSF InternationalOMNI Environmental Services Inc.QPSQuality Auditing InstituteSGSTUV AmericaTUV RheinlandUnderwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC)Underwriters' Laboratories Inc.
The
following is the list of field evaluation agencies recognized by ESA.
Canadian Standards Association (CSA)Electrical Safety Authority Field Evaluation (ESAFE)Intertek Testing ServicesLab Test Certification IncMet Laboratories Inc. (MET)NemkoQPSQuality Auditing InstituteTUV AmericaTUV RheinlandUnderwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC)
References:
- ESA Bulletin 36-1-21
- CSA Website: http://www.csagroup.org/services-industries/marks-labels/csa-marks/
- Standard Council of Canada Website: https://www.scc.ca/
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