So has the UK. – it was called (something like) The Electricity at Work Act – generally a good thing put a dangerously and poorly implemented concept that allowed untrained unprofessionals to destroy a huge amount of IT equipment and charge the customer for it. (I worked at DEC in the UK at the time and had to pick up many of the pieces – hence the visible cringing whilst typing amid the sound of axes being ground!.) One memorable slogan by a ‘contractor’ was : “You can trust me – I used to be a policeman”. Further comment is unnecessary…… As a result we had several thousand monitors damaged by 25 Amps being passed between the RGB Coax- grounds and PEG – and one ‘gentlemen’ in Wales charged our customers $1 for changing fuses in the mains plug (of new equipment) to a lower value – this did nothing for the safety of the equipment but created the possibility of multiple failures to the ‘techs’ to find. In all – just the sort of thing that gets engineering and compliance a bad name. Best regards Gregg http://www.test4safety.com <http://www.test4safety.com/>
From: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of Barry Esmore Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 7:47 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: Safety testing after equipment repair Australia has an actual standard which lists the tests and procedures for the regular testing of equipment in use, and equipment that has been repaired. I believe the standard is compulsory for building sites. Regards Barry Esmore AUS-TICK 281 Lawrence Rd Mount Waverley Vic 3149 Australia Ph: 61 3 9886 1345 Fax: 61 3 9884 7272 ----- Original Message ----- From: richwo...@tycoint.com To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 6:46 AM Subject: Safety testing after equipment repair Management is asking me if we really need to perform certain safety inspections and tests after the equipment is repaired. Of course, the answer is that the inspections and/or tests are a prudent action to ensure continued safety of the product. Then they ask "Does anyone else do it?" Good question. Here is what we do. We intentionally tried to minimize the amount of inspections and testing. The protocol consists of certain visual inspections for such things as damaged insulation and missing fasteners; and a hypot test is specified only if the safety critical part being changed would be stressed by the test. So, let me pose the question - Does your company perform specified safety inspections and/or tests after repair of mains circuits? Richard Woods Sensormatic Electronics Tyco International 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: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: emc_p...@symbol.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
