Why regulate product safety?
Regulating product safety:
- provides up-to-date rules to protect consumers, users, operators and the public from the use of unapproved or unsafe electrical products;
- promotes safe market practices for distributing electrical products;
- creates a legal framework to respond to unapproved or unsafe commercial and industrial electrical products;
- deters non-compliance and strengthens enforcement; and
- creates clear requirements for manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers; and certification and evaluation agencies of electrical products
The Product Safety Regulation authorizes the ESA to:
- respond to reports about unsafe commercial and industrial products;
- remove unsafe or unapproved commercial and industrial electrical products from the market;
- require public notification; and
- use proactive enforcement to detect and prevent the sale of unsafe or unapproved products