FAQ's

Lighting products in the UK need to meet the requirements of UKCA. This includes mandatory requirements for a Declaration of Conformity and a risk assessment demonstrating how your product mitigates risk to people, buildings and animals. It is not mandatory to have testing done by a 3^rd party laboratory, however the majority of companies use a 3^rd party lab to provide them with supporting reports and certificates to prove safety prior to placing products on the UK market. Remember, as soon as you place the UKCA mark on your product and put it on the market you’re legally responsible for compliance to all the requirements.

Testing lead times will depend on specification of the product and the tests that are required to be applied. As an average a full luminaire test is ~6 weeks with emergency luminaire testing adding another 2-4 weeks. Partial tests such as flammability or UMSUG testing are normally actioned within 2 weeks.

We can test to whatever standards you request. A full list of our accreditations can be found below.

Once testing is completed you will be provided with a report which hopefully indicates your products compliance to the standard assessed against. Where there are non-compliances you will receive a report outlining the failures and the clauses against which the product did not comply. If you wish to amend the product and re-test, one pass results are achieved a full pass report can be issued.