Approved/Approval
Approved/Approval : means approved by the AHJ. A very common misconception: There is no such thing as a CSA, ULC or ULI approval. These agencies do NOT "approve" anything. What they do is to test products in accordance with standards, which are consensus procedures developed by task groups and approved by expert volunteer committees made up of members who, for the most part, are not employees of the test laboratories or SCC accredited certification organisations. Such Canadian standards are then eligible for SCC approval. Once SCC approves such a standard, it then becomes a "National Standard of Canada". After testing, the laboratory records the results in a test report, which is the confidential property of the lab and the submittor. Next, the laboratory, if SCC accredited for certification, communicates the results of the test in the form of a certification listing. Certification listings form the basis of field approvals by the AHJ, who must base its field approval of an installed product exclusively on bounding. Lack of regard for or understanding of this simple principle forms the basis for many errors as well as serious and deliberate cheating in Canada (see 'skuzzbucket'). So long as people think of a tube of caulking or a bag of mortar or an MCT Tecron module or any product as "approved", simply because it bears a certification label, then it seems to follow for many of our contemporaries, that you can do just about anything with it. After all, it's "approved", which takes on almost a mystical meaning, such as the process of turning tap water into holy water. But bear in mind that even if the local archdiocese dispatched a platoon of priests to bless an entire watershed, turning a city's water supply for 2 years into holy water, you can still drown in it, which is probably why the Vatican would never allow large scale blessings of that nature. Imagine, if that happened in the US, and someone drowned in holy water, the Vatican would be subject to class action lawsuits! In the case of firestops, some crafty players would take a product listed at a thickness of 3" for a 2 hour rating for a small concrete floor hole around steel pipe as being OK to provide the same rating when used at a fraction of the thickness in a completely different type of hole. Just because a toaster is perceived as "approved", that does not mean that it will be acceptable for use as a lavatory. Especially if it is plugged in at the time. "Approved" ! Caveat emptor!
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