Electrical Safety Testing Standards

Despite the convenience that electricity often gives us, an underlying danger always exists if products are not up to regulations. Professional safety inspectors not only focus on many individualized fields of devices, but strive toward global consistency in practice.

Identifying Basic Dangers

• The most essential safety standard for any electric device is that it never offers the chance for its user to receive a shock. Quad-Safe states that for a test to be up to standard, four principle qualities must be examined on any electronic product. These are danger of "electric shock, fire, mechanically-induced injury and low-voltage-high energy problems."

Worldwide Compliance

• As of the first decade of the 21st century, increased global efforts have been put in place to set and regulate electrical safety testing standards. This is particularly the case with regard to the United States, Canada and nations in Europe. In the U.S. and Canada, products are required to bare marks that identify the lab that examined them. The European Union has issued a "low-voltage directive," which makes standards for products similar in all the member states.

Certification Types

• Standards will differ depending on the market or industry that products are made for. Thus, you might gain certification testing equipment for a number of different fields and industries. These include but are not limited to medicine, food-service or restaurants, security or telecommunications.