Document ID: OSHA-2013-0012-0025
Agency: osha
Document Type: Notice
Title: Modification to the List of Appropriate Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories Program Test Standards
Posted Date: 2019-07-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 143 (Thursday, July 25, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35887-35888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15812]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. OSHA-2013-0012]

Modification to the List of Appropriate NRTL Program Test 
Standards

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA announces the final decision to add a new 
test standard to the Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL) 
Program's list of appropriate test standards.

DATES: The actions contained in this notice will become effective on 
July 25, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information regarding this notice is 
available from the following sources:
    Press inquiries: Contact Mr. Frank Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office 
of Communications; telephone: (202) 693-1999; email: 
meilinger.francis2@dol.gov.
    General and technical information: Contact Mr. Kevin Robinson, 
Director, Office of Technical Programs and Coordination Activities, 
Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management, Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration; telephone: (202) 693-2110 or email: 
robinson.kevin@dol.gov. OSHA's website includes information about the 
NRTL Program (see http://www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/index.html).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The NRTL Program recognizes organizations that provide product-
safety testing and certification services to manufacturers. These 
organizations perform testing and certification for purposes of the 
program, to U.S. consensus-based product-safety test standards. The 
products covered by the NRTL Program consist of those items for which 
OSHA safety standards require ``certification'' by a NRTL. The 
requirements affect electrical products and 38 other types of products. 
OSHA does not develop or issue these test standards, but generally 
relies on standards development organizations (SDOs), which develop and 
maintain the standards using a method that provides input and 
consideration of views of industry groups, experts, users, consumers, 
governmental authorities and others having broad experience in the 
safety field involved.

Addition of New Test Standards to the NRTL Program List of Appropriate 
Test Standards

    Periodically, OSHA will add new test standards to the NRTL list of 
appropriate test standards following an evaluation of the test standard 
document. To qualify as an appropriate test standard, the agency 
evaluates the document to (1) verify it represents a product category 
for which OSHA requires certification by a NRTL, (2) verify the 
document represents an end product and not a component, and (3) verify 
the document defines safety test specifications (not installation or 
operational performance specifications). OSHA becomes aware of new test 
standards through various avenues. For example, OSHA may become aware 
of new test standards by: (1) Monitoring notifications issued by 
certain SDOs; (2) reviewing applications by NRTLs or applicants seeking 
recognition to include a new test standard in their scopes of 
recognition; and (3) obtaining notification from manufacturers, 
manufacturing organizations, government agencies, or other parties that 
a new test standard may be appropriate to add to the list of 
appropriate standards. OSHA may determine to include a new test 
standard in the list, for example, if the test standard is for a 
particular type of product that another test standard also covers, 
addresses a type of product that no standard previously covered, or is 
otherwise new to the NRTL Program.

Proposed Modification to the NRTL Program List of Appropriate NRTL 
Program Test Standards

    In a March 14, 2019, Federal Register notice (84 FR 9384, referred 
to in this notice as ``Proposed Modification,'' and available at 
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID OSHA-2013-0012-0019), OSHA proposed 
adding one standard to the NRTL Program List of Appropriate Test 
Standards. OSHA received one comment on this proposed action (available 
at www.regulations.gov under Docket IDs OSHA-2013-0012-0022). OSHA 
fully considered this comment and determined that no action was 
necessary.

II. Final Decision To Add a New Test Standard to the NRTL Program List 
of Appropriate Test Standards

    In this notice, OSHA announces the final decision to add one new 
test standard, to the NRTL Program List of Appropriate Test Standards, 
as described in Table 1:

 Table 1--Test Standards OSHA Decided To Add to the NRTL Program List of
                       Appropriate Test Standards
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               Test standard                     Test standard title
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ANSI/CPLSO 14-2016........................  Crane Insulators.
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    OSHA will add this test standard to the ``Appropriate Test 
Standards'' web page on OSHA's website. Access to this web page is 
available at http://www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/index.html.

III. Authority and Signature

    Loren Sweatt, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 
Safety and Health, authorized the preparation of this notice. 
Accordingly, the agency is issuing this notice

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pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 657(g)(2)), Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012 
(77 FR 3912, Jan. 25, 2012), and 29 CFR 1910.7.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on July 19, 2019.
Loren Sweatt,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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