CSA stands for Canadian Standards Association. Founded in 1919, it was the first non-profit organization in Canada dedicated to the development of industry standards.
Electronic, electrical, sanitary and gas products sold in North America are required to obtain safety certification. CSA is currently the largest safety certification organization in Canada and one of the most famous safety certification organizations in the world. It can provide safety certification for all types of products in the areas of machinery, building materials, electrical appliances, computer equipment, office equipment, environmental protection, medical fire safety, sports and recreation.
CSA has provided certification services to thousands of manufacturers around the world, with hundreds of millions of CSA-marked products sold in North America each year.
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Organizational Structure
CSA's members come from across Canada. More than 7,000 volunteers from all walks of life across the country and more than 2,200 sponsoring associations comprise more than 1,000 standards committees that follow a process of developing standards, requirements, and guidelines for a wide range of materials, products, equipment, and services based on the principle of pooling and synthesizing the reasonable opinions of all people.
CSA standards are voluntary, but federal, provincial, and local governments often use and refer to CSA standards when developing regulations, and these standards become the basis for government legislation, which is mandatory.
CSA has six laboratories in Canada and is headquartered in Toronto. In mainland China, there are two laboratories, one in Shanghai and the other in Guangzhou. In the Far East, three offices have been set up in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Meanwhile, it has established agency certification relationships with JMI in Japan, KEMA in the Netherlands and BSI in the United Kingdom.
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