Regulations and Standards

Would you like help with par­tic­u­lar reg­u­la­tions and stan­dards? We can help you with Cana­di­an, Euro­pean, UK, and USA juris­dic­tions. At this time, we do not con­sult on Mex­i­can requirements.

CANADA

There are three major juris­dic­tions in Cana­da: Fed­er­al, Provin­cial and Territorial.

Federal

The Cana­da Labour Code, which Human Resources Devel­op­ment Cana­da enforces, cov­ers work­ers employed by the Gov­ern­ment of Cana­da in gov­ern­ment depart­ments, the Cana­di­an Forces, the Roy­al Cana­di­an Mount­ed Police (RCMP), trans­porta­tion (rail­ways, air­lines, and ship­ping), and work­ers on First Nations lands.

Radi­a­tion emit­ting devices are Fed­er­al­ly reg­u­lat­ed under the Radi­a­tion Emit­ting Devices Act and relat­ed reg­u­la­tions.

CSA stan­dards are used as the basis for reg­u­la­to­ry approval at this lev­el, in addi­tion to Fed­er­al reg­u­la­tions relat­ing to radi­a­tion, elec­tro­mag­net­ic spec­trum (includ­ing elec­tro­mag­net­ic com­pat­i­bil­i­ty issues for equip­ment), and trans­porta­tion standards.

Provincial / Territorial

Cana­da has ten provinces and three ter­ri­to­ries, as shown on the map below. The Provin­cial and Ter­ri­to­r­i­al gov­ern­ments are based in each Provin­cial or Ter­ri­to­r­i­al capital.

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Each province and ter­ri­to­ry has its work­place reg­u­la­tions cov­er­ing non-fed­er­al work­places. These reg­u­la­tions are enforced by Provin­cial or Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Min­istries respon­si­ble for labour. Note that fed­er­al work­places exist with­in the provin­cial or ter­ri­to­r­i­al geographies.

Juris­dic­tion	Min­istry
Alber­ta	Occu­pa­tion­al health and safe­ty (OHS)
British Colum­bia	Min­istry of Labour and Work­Safe BC
Man­i­to­ba	Min­istry of Labour and Immigration
New Brunswick	Min­istry of Labour and Work­Safe NB
New­found­land & Labrador	Min­istry of Human Resources, Labour and Employ­ment — Occu­pa­tion­al Health and Safe­ty and the  Work­place Health, Safe­ty and Com­pen­sa­tion Commission
Nova Sco­tia	Min­istry of Labour and Work­force Development
North­west Territories	Depart­ment of Human Resources and the Work­er’s Safe­ty and Com­pen­sa­tion Commission
Nunavut Ter­ri­to­ry	Gov­ern­ment of Nunavut
Ontario	Min­istry of Labour
Prince Edward Island	Work­ers Com­pen­sa­tion Board of PEI
Québec	Min­istry of Labour/Min­istère du Tra­vail du Québec and the Com­mis­sion de la san­té et de la sécu­rité du tra­vail (CNESST)
Saskatchewan	Min­istry of Labour and Occu­pa­tion­al Health and Safety
Yukon Ter­ri­to­ry	Yukon Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion Health & Safe­ty Board

Cana­di­an Legal Infor­ma­tion Insti­tute (CANLII) Data­base of Cana­di­an legislation

Gen­er­al infor­ma­tion on Cana­da from Wikipedia

Europe and the UK

European Union

We have deep exper­tise in the fol­low­ing EU DIrec­tives and many relat­ed standards:

• Safe­ty of Machin­ery 2006/42/EU
• Low Volt­age 2014/35/EU
• Elec­tro­mag­net­ic Com­pat­i­bil­i­ty (EMC) 2014/30/EU

If you need assis­tance with oth­er Direc­tives, we may be able to help; ask!

The United Kingdom and Northern Ireland

Fol­low­ing Brex­it at the end of 2020, the UK could no longer use the CE Mark­ing sys­tem. Since 2021-01-01, the UKCA mark has become manda­to­ry for a short time. All prod­ucts pre­vi­ous­ly accept­ed with a CE Mark can bear either a CE Mark, a UKCA/UKNI Mark or both. A tran­si­tion peri­od between CE Mark­ing and UKCA Mark­ing was pro­vid­ed in 2021. As of 2023-01-01, the CE Mark will no longer be accept­ed in the UK. See our UKCA page for more information.

USA

The USA has three pri­ma­ry juris­dic­tions: Fed­er­al, State and Municipal.

Federal

Under Fed­er­al juris­dic­tion, the Occu­pa­tion­al Health and Safe­ty Admin­is­tra­tion (OSHA) reg­u­lates work­place safe­ty in all Fed­er­al facil­i­ties and states that have adopt­ed the OSHA reg­u­la­tions. Machin­ery safe­ty reg­u­la­tions are found in the Code of Fed­er­al Reg­u­la­tions (CFR): 29 CFR 1910.

The Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) reg­u­lates radi­a­tion and radi­a­tion-emit­ting devices through the Cen­ter for Devices and Radi­o­log­i­cal Health (CDRH). This includes ion­iz­ing sources such as X‑ray machines and non-ion­iz­ing sources like lasers. 

Man­u­fac­tur­ers of laser prod­ucts are respon­si­ble for com­pli­ance with all applic­a­ble require­ments of Title 21 Code of Fed­er­al Reg­u­la­tions (Sub­chap­ter J, Radi­o­log­i­cal Health) Parts 1000 through 1005.

In addi­tion, laser prod­ucts must com­ply with radi­a­tion safe­ty per­for­mance stan­dards in Title 21 Code of Fed­er­al Reg­u­la­tions (Sub­chap­ter J, Radi­o­log­i­cal Health) Parts 1010 and 1040:

• 1010 — Per­for­mance stan­dards for elec­tron­ic prod­ucts: general
• 1040.10 — Laser products
• 1040.11 – Spe­cif­ic pur­pose laser products

States

Each state can make work­place safe­ty laws or adopt the Fed­er­al OSHA reg­u­la­tions. The USA cur­rent­ly has 50 states and one dis­trict. We won’t list all of the state’s depart­ments of labour here, but you should be able to find them eas­i­ly using your favourite search engine.

Municipal

Some large cities have devel­oped their local codes in addi­tion to the fed­er­al and state codes that may apply. Munic­i­pal­i­ties with local codes include New York City, Chica­go and Los Ange­les. Check with your local munic­i­pal­i­ty or the city where the equip­ment will be installed for more information.

Mexico

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we do not con­sult on Mex­i­can reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments at this time.