Access Requirements for North American Power Truck (forklift) product,
North American Power,

▍What is cTUVus & ETL CERTIFICATION?

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), affiliated to US DOL (Department of Labor), demands that all products to be used in workplace must be tested and certificated by NRTL before being sold in market. Applicable testing standards include American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards; American Society for Testing Material (ASTM) standards, Underwriter Laboratory (UL) standards, and factory mutual-recognition organization standards.

▍OSHA, NRTL, cTUVus, ETL and UL terms definition and relationship

OSHA: Abbreviation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It is an affiliation of US DOL (Department of Labor).

NRTL： Abbreviation of Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory. It is in charge of lab accreditation. Up to now, there are 18 third-party testing institutions approved by NRTL, including TUV, ITS, MET and so forth.

cTUVus： Certification mark of TUVRh in North America.

ETL： Abbreviation of American Electrical Testing Laboratory. It was established in 1896 by Albert Einstein, the American inventor.

UL： Abbreviation of Underwriter Laboratories Inc.

▍Difference between cTUVus, ETL & UL

▍Why MCM?

● Soft Support from qualification and technology: As the witness testing lab of TUVRH and ITS in North American Certification, MCM is able to perform all types of testing and provide better service by exchanging technology face to face.

● Hard support from technology: MCM is equipped with all testing equipment for batteries of big-sized, small-sized and precision projects (i.e. electric mobile car, storage energy, and electronic digital products), able to provide overall battery testing and certification services in North America, covering standards UL2580, UL1973, UL2271, UL1642, UL2054 and so forth.

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a compilation of general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register (RF) by the executive agencies and departments of the U.S federal government, having universal applicability and legal effect. CFR covers a wide range of topics. There are 50 articles of federal regulations (CFR) covering the fields and objects of presidential, accounting, administrative personnel, domestic security, agriculture, aliens and citizens, animals and animal products, energy, federal elections, banking and finance, business credit and funding, aviation and aerospace, commerce and foreign trade, business practices, commodity and securities trading, electricity, water conservation, tariffs, employee benefits, food and drugs, foreign relations, highways, housing and urban development, Indians, domestic income, tobacco, alcohol products and arms, Administration of Justice, Labor, Mineral Resources, Finance, National Defense, Shipping and Navigable Waters, Education, Panama Canal, Parks, Forests and Public Property, Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, Pensions, Allowances and Veterans Relief, Postal Services, Environmental Protection, Public Contracts and Property Management, Public Health, Public Lands, Disaster Relief, Public Welfare, Shipping, Telecommunications, Federal Acquisition Rules System, Transportation, Wildlife and Fisheries.
CFR Title 29 is the Title 29 of Labor Code in Federal Regulations that contains the main rules and regulations issued by federal agencies regarding labor. CFR Title 29.1910 is the Chapter 1910 Title 29 in the CFR—Occupational safety and health standard that applies to all workplaces, unless specifically prohibited or predetermined by a specific standard. CFR Title 29, 1910.178 provides specific requirements for material handling and storage for powered industrial trucks.CFR Title 29, 1910.178(a)(2) requires that all new powered industrial trucks purchased and used by employers must comply with the design and manufacturing requirements for powered industrial trucks established in “American National Standard for Powered Industrial Trucks, Part II, ANSI B56.1-1969″.