The Truth about Product Listing, Marking and Labeling Requirements (Online Live)

Building Codes often reference Product Safety Standards and are critical in the structure of the codes. A basic concept to understand is that the building codes dictate how products are to be installed and product safety standards determine the safety performance of the products that are installed. Without the inclusion of safety standard references, it would be not possible for those are enforcing building codes to evaluate each product that is within the scope of the inspection as they do not have the time, expertise, resources, or sometimes the luxury of completing destructive testing. Therefore, it is critical for products to display certification marks issued by third-party testing labs to indicate that these products, as built at the factory, conform to applicable product safety standards and have been listed and labeled. These marks alleviate that burden of product safety standard conformance from the AHJ for specific appliances, fixtures, fittings, materials, and engineered systems. Because there are organizations that both write product safety standards as Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and test to product safety standards as Nationally Recognized Testing Labs (NRTLs), it is not always clear to the inspector what certification marks mean and that the certification mark indicates who completed the testing, listing, and labeling. There is often confusion that the standard referenced in the code is the mark that must appear on the installed product. It is also important to understand the process of researching listed and labeled products to ensure that they truly meet this requirement and that they are listed to the standard indicated in the code.

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