Alliance for Safety and Quality - The Organization for the Safety of Abrasives
oSa stands for Organisation for the Safety of Abrasives. Leading producers of high-grade abrasive products have come together in this international organization to document the high safety standards of their branded and quality products. The sole purpose is to ensure that the quality of their products remains consistently high in the interests of abrasive product users. oSa members are committed to sustaining quality assurance and ensuring the adherence to safety standards.
What does oSa do?
As there are no binding safety requirements across the world for abrasive products, users are naturally worried and buying safe abrasives for the many fields of use is made that much more difficult.
To get that urgently needed transparency on the international markets, 17 reputable European companies in the abrasives industry set up the oSa in March 2000. It now has 50 members.
Membership is open to all companies
whose products meet or surpass the CEN standards of safety requirements for abrasive products,
which through stipulated testing procedures and conditions ensure that these standards are also kept,
and which accept the checks laid down by oSa.
Fulfillment of these requirements gives members the right to mark their products with the oSa label.