North America WERCSmart,
North America WERCSmart,

▍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.

WERCSmart is a product registration database company developed by The Wercs in The United States, providing product supervision for supermarkets in The United States and Canada, and facilitating the procurement of products. Retailers and other participants in the WERCSmart program are facing increasingly complex federal, state, and local regulatory compliance challenges in selling, shipping, storing, or disposing of products. The security data sheets (SDSs) provided with the product usually does not contain enough information to comply with these regulations. The product data shall be standardalized through WERCSmart to comply with those regulations.MCM has a group of excellent personnel who have been studying the regulatory requirements of SDS for a long time, and have a deep understanding of the changes of regulations, so as to provide SDS compilation services for customers for nearly ten years.MCM has special staff to communicate with WERCSmart audit staff to ensure the smooth completion of registration and audit.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that products used in the workplace be tested and certified by nationally recognized laboratories before they can be marketed. Testing standards used include the American National Standards Institute (ANSI); American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM); American Underwriters Laboratory (UL); Research organization standard for mutual recognition of factories.