Certification Body

The ICSPM-CS Certification Body was set up in 1995 through the Order of The Minister of Labour No. 179 of 9th November 1995 as “Laboratory for the attestation of product quality as for the occupational safety”. Later, it became “The Certification Unit” according to the provisions of the Government Decision i.e. H.G. No. 406 of 23rd July 1998.

The ICSPM-CS – The Certification Body -, is highly experienced in the accomplishment of activities meant to the assessment of the conformity and the certification of the machinery and other work equipment (WE), and of the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), respectively.

At present, the ICSPM-CS Certification Body carries out the above activities in accordance with:

• The Government Decision (H. G.) No. 1772/2004 related to the organization and functioning of The National Research & Development Institute for Occupational Safety – I.N.C.D.P.M. “Alexandru Darabont” – Bucharest.

ICSPM-CS is a Certification Body accredited by RENAR and notified at European level under the Identification Number NB 2756 for the implementation of all the procedures provided within the EU Regulation 2016/425 for any PPE type, excepting those PPE ensuring a limited protection only in time against the ionizing radiations, and the diving equipment. ICSPM-CS is a Certification Body that was notified at European level by 5th July 2017 with the Identification Number NB 1805, for the implementation of:

• The procedures of conformity assessment as provided within the EU Directive 2006/42/EC amended, for machinery, elevators for the vehicles, and lifting equipment for persons and vehicles of over 3m height.

ICSPM-CS has the necessary competence to assess and/or certificate the following groups of products of the unregulated area as for standards and other applicable regulation acts: WE not included in the application area of the technical regulations and the above mentioned directives (e.g. electrical equipment of high voltage, industrial machines not included in annex 4 of GD no. 119/2004, electrical insulating tools);

• used WE/PPE
• special types of PPE: personal equipment for rescuing persons in special situations;
• protective clothes items of simple design, footwear and work underwear: overalls, trousers, undershirts, stockings, socks etc;
• materials and half-finished materials for PPE and personal working equipment: fabrics, filmed materials, leather for PPE manufacturing. belts, cords, shoe soles.

OC ICSPM-CS does not offer and does not provide conformity assessment services for products in which INCDPM, through its departments, has a direct financial interest as product designer, manufacturer or trader, neither does for the products for which INCDPM related bodies (INCDPM, its research and development departments) had provided design or consultancy services and had participated in research studies meant to improve the product in the previous 2 years before the demand for conformity assessment was made. The consultancy services developed by the related organizations are not to be associated in any form to the services of conformity assessment for certification developed by OC ICSPM – CS; in order to comply with such requirement for the certification OC ICSPM-CS does not use the findings obtained within the consultancy contracts in any situation whatsoever.