Product certification requests, matched to your files and the public listings.

The request comes from a plant's EHS manager, a contractor's safety director before a job starts, or an auditor working through a sample of what was issued. It lists item numbers or descriptions and asks for proof: the approval, the standard each item meets, the test summary. Someone finds the right document for each line, checks that it covers that item and that edition, and writes back about whatever isn't there.

In the test, AI reads copies of those requests beside your product files and the public listings your team relies on, and drafts the reply line by line: item, approval or certification number, standard and edition, which document is on hand and where it came from. Lines with nothing on file go on a list for a person to chase with the maker. Nothing is sent.

A NIOSH number is a map. Every approval begins with TC, then a schedule code, then a number NIOSH assigned. A 13F is self-contained breathing apparatus, 19C supplied air, 14G a gas mask with canister, 23C an air-purifying respirator with chemical cartridge, 21C a powered air-purifying respirator with a particulate filter, and 84A a particulate filter, alone or combined with a chemical cartridge. NIOSH approves complete assemblies and issues no certificate for an individual component. The full label is a table of part numbers with an X in each approved configuration, so a request about one cartridge can't be answered without the facepiece it goes on. The draft quotes that row and holds the line when the pairing is missing.

A number that checked out last year may not today. NIOSH says the easiest way to confirm an approval is its Certified Equipment List, which can be searched by approval number. In a March 2025 notice it rescinded four approvals at the holder's request, a self-contained breathing apparatus and a gas mask among them: from March 28 those numbers left the list, and those respirators could no longer be used, made, assembled, sold or distributed. A photocopy in your files won't show that, so the draft records the date each number was checked. Names can mislead too. On a private-labeled product the private label's name appears where the approval holder's would, so the draft matches on the TC number and shows both names when it finds them.

A declaration and a certificate make different promises. ANSI/ISEA 125-2021 sets out three levels. At Level 1 the supplier tests in-house or at a third-party lab. At Level 2 testing happens at a facility accredited to ISO 17025, and the product is made under an ISO 9001-registered quality system. Both end in a supplier's declaration of conformity. At Level 3 the whole process, from testing to surveillance, runs under an accredited certification body. ISEA offers a blank declaration form, calls it the sole responsibility of manufacturers and suppliers, and says it does not keep records of conformity. The draft names which one you hold, and a request for third-party certification answered by a declaration is marked for your reviewer.

The edition is its own field. OSHA's eye rule names ANSI/ISEA Z87.1-2010, ANSI Z87.1-2003 and ANSI Z87.1-1989 (R-1998), and accepts equipment an employer shows is at least as effective. ISEA announced Z87.1-2025 in January 2026, with clearer, more standardized markings. OSHA's head rule stops at Z89.1-2009, and its foot rule still lists ANSI Z41 editions, a reference withdrawn in 2005 and replaced by ASTM's standards. Alaska Railroad's 2016 bid for prescription safety glasses wrote in the 2010 edition and applied it to both lenses and frames. A request for the current standard and a request that names an edition are different questions, so the draft reports the edition printed on your document and never rounds it up.

Gloves send people back to the maker. OSHA's nonmandatory appendix says that before buying gloves an employer should ask the manufacturer for documentation that they meet the appropriate test standard for the hazard anticipated. So a glove line can bring a request your invoice can't answer. Rubber goods carry markings of their own, a class from 00 through 4 and Type I or ozone-resistant Type II. Your reviewer, usually whoever keeps your certificate files, checks that each document fits the item that shipped, none was stretched to cover a neighbor, and every gap made the chase list.

Once your reviewer says yes against the success criteria, new requests get a drafted packet for about 30 days.

A named person at your company checks every document before it goes out, and anything on the chase list stays with your team until the maker answers.

Another job, if you want one, gets decided and priced separately.