Chris, You can find the PLD via a link from the Safety Link website. It's great lawyer fodder, or good reading if you're having trouble falling asleep.
Now, assume that you have a product that is a battery powered, portable device, not sold to the general consumer market. It has been evaluated to UL 60950, and listed, so there are periodic factory audits. I think there's a mighty good case that because UL60950 and EN60950 are so similar (identical?) in those areas that apply to the product (read that as: TNV sections: N/A. AC Mains sections- N/A. on & on N/A'ing ad nauseum), the only apparent reason for evaluating to EN60950 or IEC 60950 is to provide extra money to some lucky test agency. OR - for marketing reasons, or by customer request. Due diligence has been done, and then some. To pay for the additional evaluation - actually, just the same report in a different format, along with an over-priced certificate - is a mighty long extra mile. It's like going the extra mile, but walking it on your hands. Q: WHAT DO YOU CALL 1,000 LAWYERS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA ? A: A GOOD START ! Do I get some kind of safety geek award for starting the longest running thread on this forum, or am I even in the running yet? Maybe some kind of medal, or even a chest to pin it on? And ya'll don't EVEN expect me to summarize this thread..... So compliant it hurts, Doug -----Original Message----- From: Chris Maxwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 8:56 AM To: 'John Woodgate'; [email protected] Subject: RE: FW: Product Safety: A Matter of Law or Litigation? Hi all, (refer to John's "inimitable" :-) reply below) Even though my previous response may not sound like it; I agree with you on this one John. Manufacturers should go the extra mile. I think that we're all trying to figure out which road to go the extra mile on. (with regard to products that fall outside the scope of the Low Voltage Directive, Machinery Directive, Toy Directive, RT&TTE Directive......even the General Product Safety Directive). I saw a reply from a collegue at Agilent. He mentioned a "Product Liability Directive". Ever heard of that one? Anybody have a copy of it that cares to comment? **************************************************************************** ************ > Now imagine you are a defendant in a court case. Prosecuting counsel > says to you, 'So, Mr. Maxwell, you have explained to the court that your > company is not responsible for the dreadful injury inflicted on Mr. > Smith by your company's product, because the General Product Safety > Directive does not apply to 'commercial equipment'. Do you not agree > that what you are asking the jury to accept is that Mr. Smith should be > protected from injury by the law in his home, but that he forfeits any > such protection as soon as he sets foot in his workplace?' > > Go the extra mile: don't assume a 'whereas' will save you! > -- > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall," ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
