Poor/Defective Manufacturing and Counterfeiting

 

Every day counterfeit electrical products are finding their way into homes, businesses, and public institutions, posing a serious financial and legal liability to the electrical industry, according to the Electrical Safety Foundation. Counterfeiting and poor/defective manufacturing workmanship are resulting in huge numbers of less than certified or quality parts in the marketplace. Robert LeRoy, a Safety/Compliance Instructor from Lakeland, Florida. As an instructor who travels internationally he finds these problems are not confined to just the US marketplace and there are no non-US based tracking sites that he’s discovered like the two listed below. US based standards are becoming the international standards at an ever increasing rate. He believes our organization is a great blessing to the industry and shares the www.mikeholt.com site with those he encounters at home and abroad.

In keeping with our focus on safety, and acknowledging May as Electrical Safety Month, we want to share these two informational web sites with you to help us stay on top of these problems.

Professional Electrical Apparatus Recyclers League

http://www.pearl1.org/electrical-safety-news.htm

Electrical Contractor and TED magazines (Officially endorsed by NAED, NECA, NEMA and UL)

http://www.counterfeitscankill.com/

In addition, the state of Wisconsin’s website this month does a great job of focusing on safety, including how to protect against dangerous and defective counterfeit electrical products.