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HMI Certified Program Hoist Manufacturers Institute

SECTION 6 – Glossary

The following terms, phrases and words may apply to HMI Certified:

  • 6.1 Adequate Product Liability Insurance – An amount of liability insurance that covers the design and manufacture of products that are subject to HMI Certified and that provides the Applicant protection from potential liability associated with the Applicant’s products that are HMI Certified and that names HMI and MHI as “additional insureds.”

    The strict interpretation is that the Applicant has determined an appropriate level of liability coverage requirement and has obtained a liability insurance policy in that amount. As proof, the Applicant must provide a Certificate of Insurance naming Material Handling Industry (MHI) and the Hoist Manufacturers Institute (HMI) as additional insureds on the liability policy. It is not the role of Staff to audit or maintain such documents, only to confirm their existence. It is the Applicant’s burden to maintain these documents as current and provide Staff updated documents as changes occur.
  • 6.2 Applicable Standard(s) – The Standard(s) that apply to the product in question as referenced in HMI’s COMPENDIUM of BASIC INFORMATION and STANDARDS for HOISTS (452 kb).
  • 6.3 Applicant – Company applying for the HMI-Certified License.
  • 6.4 Certified Configuration – Product version earning HMI-Certified.
  • 6.5 Cognizant – The term is used to describe the Professional Engineer who performs the evaluation and attests to conformance as having awareness, realization, and knowledge of the technical aspects of hoist products.
  • 6.6 Declaration of Conformity – Two documents, one Technical and the other Service and Support, which attest to compliance with the HMI-Certified Program.
  • 6.7 Due Diligence Evaluation – The process by which the HMI Managing Executive investigates and verifies the Applicant’s submissions.
  • 6.8 HMI – Hoist Manufacturers Institute, an Affiliated Trade Association of the Material Handling Industry of America.
  • 6.9 HMI By-Laws – The rules by which the HMI governs itself.
  • 6.10 HMI-Certified – The program for allowing Hoist products to gain a measure of proof of compliance to the Applicable Standard(s).
  • 6.11 HMI-Certified Mark – The trade mark that Licensees are authorized to use and to display in association with such product or product family of like design that qualifies for the HMI-Certified status.
  • 6.12 HMI-Certified Program – Program by which a hoist product can gain HMI-Certified status.
  • 6.13 Hold Harmless Agreement – The contract by which Applicants and Licensees agree to indemnify HMI, MHIA, and its officers, executives, and members from all claims or costs relating to the HMI Certified Program.
  • 6.14 Issuing Agent – The Professional Engineer who signs and seals the Declaration of Conformity and who certifies that the product or product family of like design complies with the Applicable Standard(s).
  • 6.15 License – The permission by HMI to Licensee that it has the rights to display and to promote its qualifying products as HMI-Certified.
  • 6.16 License Agreement - Contract between HMI and Licensee agreeing to the conditions of the award of HMI-Certified.
  • 6.17 Licensee – Successful Applicant.
  • 6.18 Life Cycle of the Product – The time commencing with a product’s release into the stream of commercial market to its withdrawal from the market.
  • 6.19 Manufacture – Taking raw material or semi-finished material and through the performance of processes involving engineering and design, fabricating, converting or producing therefrom semi-finished or finished industrial hoisting equipment for sale commercially. “Manufacture” is not merely assembling or combining components manufactured by others.
  • 6.20 Marked products – Products for which the HMI-Certified Mark have been licensed.
  • 6.21 Member – A company that is a member of HMI.
  • 6.22 Product Family of Like Design – A number of products sharing brand, fundamental design objectives, styling, performance and operating characteristics.
  • 6.23 Professional Engineer – A person who has gained registration and is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the United States.
  • 6.24 Qualified Product – A product that has been approved and is covered by the License.
  • 6.25 Qualified Service & Repair Capabilities – The service and repairs that the Applicant offers to meet its obligations in providing safe and effective service and repairs for its products.
  • 6.26 Reaffirmed – The process of completion and submitting a new Declaration of Conformity in accordance with Section 3.
  • 6.27 Sign and Seal – The Professional Engineer’s attestation as to the compliance of the product to the Applicable Standard(s), in accordance with the rules and regulations governing the institution by which the Professional Engineer is licensed.
  • 6.28 Significant Design Change – A change to the design of product covered by the License that could affect the compliance of the product with the Applicable Standard(s).
  • 6.29 Technical File – The Professional Engineer’s work product that substantiates and documents his verifications, conclusions and related attestations that the product complies with the Applicable Standard(s).
  • 6.30 Verify – Taking appropriate steps and actions including evaluation, analysis, calculation, and tests, to confirm that the product complies with the Applicable Standard(s).