Hello Colleagues, We just ran across a nifty piece of standards writing. In Australia in of their telecom standards (TS002) there is the following safety statement in it.
"5.1.1.2 CE should not cause harm or damage to a Telecommunications Network or Facility when CE is operated outside the range of operating voltage and environmental conditions specified by the manufacturer" Our testing facility correctly has asked us to provide a DoC on this point as it is un-testable but I have serious liability concerns about the statement as it lets somebody hook up our device in any environmental condition to any supply voltage and then when things go wrong point to the DoC and claim they were justified in doing so. This standard is not new so I'm sure many of you have come across this product safety issue before. Does anyone know of some sort of interpretation guideline for this issue or failing that, how have you solved this problem. Thanks for your help Best Regards, Kevin Harris Manager, Approval Services Digital Security Controls 3301 Langstaff Road Concord, Ontario CANADA L4K 4L2 Tel: +1 905 760 3000 Ext. 2378 Fax +1 905 760 3020 Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ------------------------------------------- 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,"
