Product Safety

New Manufacturer’s Requirements

Ontario’s Product Safety regulation authorizes the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) to protect the public against unsafe electrical products in the marketplace by:

• responding to reports of unsafe products;
• removing unsafe, counterfeit and unapproved products from the marketplace;
• requiring manufacturers to notify the public of unsafe products; and
• implementing prevention-based and proactive detection activities.

The government and ESA have heard from industry about concerns with the proposed manufacturer registration system. The Electrical Safety Authority wishes to advise electrical product manufacturers and other industry stakeholders of the decision to postpone the August 30, 2009 deadline for the registration program.

We want to thank those who have already registered, and assure them that ESA will extend the duration of their registration as appropriate.

The Frequently Asked Questions documents previously linked from this page are being revised and will be reposted shortly.

Questions about the product safety registration process should be emailed to ESA’s Product Safety Group – product.safety@electricalsafety.on.ca, or by calling Norm Breton, ESA’s General Manager, Product Safety, at (905) 712-7813.