SUMMARY: This notice announces the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's decision to revoke the recognition of Wyle Laboratories, Inc. (Wyle) as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory under 29 CFR 1910.7.



OSHA is revoking Wyle's recognition as an NRTL. OSHA identified deficiencies in Wyle's testing and certification operations that Wyle did not correct. OSHA determined that, as a result of these deficiencies, Wyle failed to substantially satisfy the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.7 and Appendix A, which is a cause for revocation under OSHA's NRTL Program regulations. OSHA already notified Wyle of the revocation decision, which is final. The DATES section above provides the effective date of revocation. Consequently, the Agency no longer accepts product certifications made by Wyle on or after this effective date.



http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=FEDERAL_REGISTER&p_id=22157





Jeffrey A. Fecteau CBO, ECO

Lead Regulatory Engineer

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Underwriters Laboratories

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W: ul.com

Okay so now I am confused.
Who qualifies a NRTL?
OSHA only?

Yep...

OSHA only recogizes 4 product standards organizations:

ANSI
UL
ASTM
FM

ONLY the OSHA - NRTL's are recognized to certify and test products to a standard by one of the above organizations.

Confusion arises due to the fact that UL both writes the standards & is a NRTL. But these two aspects of the organization are completely separate.

The standards division of UL is Not-For-Profit & is government regulated. The Standards Technical Panels are made up of members of the public and electrical professionals. I serve on several STP's.

The NRTL division is For-Profit and is operated by paid employees.