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Functional Safety Evaluation & Certification

Minimize risk, limit liability, and gain a competitive edge by ensuring compliance with functional safety requirements for your complex systems.

Industrial Safety Equipment Certification

We can help you certify even the most complex industrial equipment and control systems governed by uniform sets of international functional safety requirements. We can also help you determine the correct Safety Integrity Level (SIL) and Performance Level (PL) designations to help reduce the risks associated with industrial machinery, equipment and processes.

Safety Related Software Certification

We can evaluate functional safety software for household and commercial products targeted for North America and around the world. This helps ensure the safe operation of automatic embedded control hardware and software in a variety of products.

Experienced and Accredited Provider

We are a fully accredited third-party testing and certification provider, providing functional safety evaluation and certification services since the release of the first edition of IEC 61508 in 2001.

Mitigating risks throughout the product selection process has an impact on both your bottom line and brand reputation. You need actionable data that provides the evidence needed to support risk mitigation efforts.

Where should you start?

Ask the right questions
Consider third-party evaluations
Use data-based evidence

Meet today’s consumer demands

Independent testing helps you meet customer expectations that products perform as advertised.

Access expert testing capabilities

Satisfy even your most demanding testing needs through our state-of-the-art laboratories and years of evaluation expertise.

Get one-stop-shop evaluation services

We provide performance and environmental testing and claim verification services to standards, regulations, and proprietary testing protocols for both product and packaging. We can also offer chemical testing to support your analytical needs.

ASSESSMENTS AGAINST RELEVANT STANDARDS

We assess and certify a wide range of companies and products involved in many diverse applications supplying many sectors including the process, machinery, automotive and nuclear sectors.

The basic safety publication which is widely accepted, IEC 61508, provides a firm basis for the specification, design and operation of electrical or electronic (including software controlled) safety systems and enables the potential of technology to realize safety-related systems. It also forms the basis for related industry-sector standards, such as:

IEC 61511 – Functional safety – Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector.
IEC 62061 – Safety of machinery – Functional safety of safety-related control systems.
EN 50271 - Electrical apparatus for the detection and measurement of combustible gases, toxic gases or oxygen - Requirements and tests for apparatus using software and/or digital technologies.
EN 50402 – Electrical apparatus for the detection and measurement of combustible or toxic gases or vapours or of oxygen - Requirements on the functional safety of gas detection systems.

Why Choose CSA Group

Internationally recognized company with over 100 years of experience.

Reliable expertise that simplifies certification for markets around the world.

Widely recognized by numerous North American and international organizations.

A broad range of testing and certification services for a range of product categories.

Functional Safety Evaluation & Certification

Industrial Safety Equipment Certification

Safety Related Software Certification

Experienced and Accredited Provider

ASSESSMENTS AGAINST RELEVANT STANDARDS

Why Choose CSA Group