The application for approval as a field evaluation body shall include a certificate of accreditation demonstrating that the field evaluation body meets the criteria in 2024 NFPA 790 for each product it seeks to evaluate. Additional criteria the department may review includes:
- (1) The field evaluation body is an independent, third-party inspection company with no direct or indirect affiliation with manufacturers, suppliers or vendors of the products it evaluates;
- (2) Possesses the capacity, equipment, and personnel necessary to perform the inspections, tests, and evaluations for the products it evaluates;
- (3) Provides in its client agreement that it supplies technical reports to the appropriate authority having jurisdiction with information concerning safety hazards and failures, if any, to meet applicable product safety standards and to provide any information requested by regulatory agencies as well as resolution of issues found leading to the application of a Field Evaluation Body label;
- (4) Is able to do all examinations, tests, evaluations and inspections for field evaluating and labeling of products for which it is approved, and limits its work to that for which it has the competency and capacity to fulfill;
- (5) Has a quality control manual as provided in 2024 NFPA 790;
- (6) Has personnel meeting the requirements in 2024 NFPA 790;
- (7) Has test and measurement equipment meeting the requirements in 2024 NFPA 790; and
- (8) Maintains records in accordance with 2024 NFPA 790.
Statutory/Other Authority
ORS 479.730
Statutes/Other Implemented
ORS 479.730
History
BCD 9-2025, amend filed 09/26/2025, effective 10/01/2025
BCD 4-2004, f. 3-31-04, cert. ef. 4-1-04
BCD 23-2000, f. 9-29-00, cert. ef. 10-1-00
BCD 19-1996, f. 9-17-96, cert. ef. 10-1-96