LANDA Equipment:
Built For Safety!
Only LANDA Pressure
Washers have the certification to prove they're Built For Safety!
- LANDA is the first
pressure washer manufacturer in the world to certify its entire pressure
washer line to the rigid UL-1776 standards.
- LANDA has more
pressure washers certified to the UL-1776 safety standards than all
of the other manufacturers combined.
- LANDA uses only
a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL), in this case ETL,
for certification of all LANDA equipment.
What Does
It Mean To Be Certified?
For years, electrical
appliances and small equipment have carried certification seals. It
was the government's way of providing consumers with confidence in the
safety of manufactured products.
The most popular certification
seals were:
- Underwriters Laboratory
(UL) in the U.S.; and
- Canadian Standards
Association (CSA) in Canada.
While the testing
of these products was not performed by the government, the testing procedures
were scrutinized and actually endorsed by federal agencies. Two
very important factors relating to certification have impacted the pressure
washer industry:
- More Testing
Laboratories: Other testing laboratories, besides UL and CSA, have
been approved by OSHA - the U.S. government's safety "watch dog"
- to certify a wide range of products; and
- New Pressure
Washer Standards: In
1992 a new set of standards - called UL-1776 - was established addressing
the unique safety concerns associated with pressure washers.
Today, consumers and
businesses can know they are purchasing a pressure washer built for safety
when they see the statement: "Certified to UL-1776 Standards."
Why Buy Only
Certified Equipment?
When it comes to product
safety, there are three key reasons businesses will want to buy only equipment
that has been certified to UL-1776 standards by a National Recognized
Testing Laboratory (NRTL), such as UL or, as in the case of LANDA equipment,
the OSHA-approved testing laboratory ETL:
- Legal Compliance:
It is
now the law in the workplace, according to OSHA regulation 1910.399,
that electrical equipment must be "listed" by an "approved"
testing agency. Failure to comply can result in penalties of up
to $10,000.
- Worker Protection:
It makes
good business sense to make sure your workers are protected by providing
them only the safest of equipment.
- Liability Protection:
In this
day of costly litigation, one of your best legal protections against
an accident on the job is purchasing only pressure washers that have
been certified by a NRTL to the rigorous UL-1776 standards.
The safety issue has
become such an important factor that even the 1996 National Electrical
Code (NEC) addresses the issue of pressure washers powered by electricity.
The NEC mandates that
all such pressure washers (except 3-phase and over 250v models) must have
a "factory-installed ground-fault circuit-interupter...[one that]
shall be an integral part of the attachment plug."
Every electric-driven
LANDA pressure washer meets this standard.
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