It's a nice symbol, and potentially useful. Rich's original question asked which countries require it. Surely any "German standard for household use products" would have been withdrawn and replaced by one or more Harmonized standards by now?
On the other hand, when using a Notified &/or Competent body, I gather they have the power (based on their engineering judgement) to either waive some requirements of harmonized standards, or impose additional requirements (or both). regards, glyn Glyn Garside (Director, Engineering Services) mailto:[email protected] Adept Technology Inc, 150 Rose Orchard Way, San Jose, CA 95134, USA http://www.adept.com TEL +1(408)434-5057 FAX +1(408)434-5163 Robots & motion controls; Robot, CMM, NC & assembly simulation. -----Original Message----- From: Art Michael [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 18:14 To: Rich Nute Cc: Product Safety Technical Committee Subject: Re: Indoor use symbol -- what standards? Hi Rich, The only place I ever ran into this req't was for German approvals. The attached graphic image was derived from a third-generation copy of a page from some German standard. I then cleaned it up and used it for a TUV Rheinland approval. (I do recall some discussions regarding which half of the house the chimney belonged on. The attached file is believed to be correct, since it was used to layout the markings label, but do check with your test lab to be certain.) Regards, Art Michael * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * International Product Safety Bookshop * * Check out our current offerings! * * <http://www.safetylink.com/bookshop.html> * * * * Another service of the Safety Link * * <www.safetylink.com> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Rich Nute wrote: > > > > > Hello from San Diego: > > > What countries and what standards require the "indoor use: > symbol? > > This symbol is comprised of a stick-figure house with an > arrow pointing from outside to inside. > > My experience with this symbol is through TUV Product Service. > They require its use because (they told me) it is required by > a German standard for household use products. I do not know > the standard. > > When TUV Product Service made me use the symbol, I asked for > the standard reference and a printed example. They had none. > So, one of their engineers drew the symbol and provided it to > me. (This was some years ago.) > > The symbol is not in either the IEC symbol standard or the > ISO symbol standard. > > I don't know of any product standard that requires the symbol. > > Perhaps one of the subscribers to this list can provide more > information about what country and what standards require this > symbol? > > > Best regards, > Rich > > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], or > [email protected] (the list administrators). > > > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
