All, There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society meeting next Wednesday, March 24, at EMC Corporation's Customer Briefing Center in Hopkinton, MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Don Card, Operations Manager for Intertek Cortland NY, will be presenting this month’s technical topic concerning the EU ATEX Directive. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as NPSS membership or advanced notice is not required.
Don Card has been in the working sector for 35 years in various business sectors including engineering, manufacturing, and for the past eleven years in product safety certification for Intertek ETL SEMKO. Don is presently the Operations Manager for the Hazardous Location Products Group for Intertek ETL SEMKO based in Cortland, N.Y. Don's focus is to provide manufacturers of equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres with product evaluations and certifications for North America and Internationally for CE marking of products to the ATEX Directive and IEC Ex Scheme. Don’s presentation will provide an overview of the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC which covers electrical and mechanical equipment and protective systems, which may be used in potentially explosive atmospheres (flammable gases, vapors or dusts). An ATEX reference booklet and a poster guide to potentially explosive atmospheres and hazardous locations will be available as handouts. An outline the ATEX presentation is: Scope of ATEX Directive Scope of Original Specific Directive Advantages of the ATEX Directive Approvals under ATEX Directive Definitions - Area Classification Equipment Groups and Categories under ATEX Protection Concepts for Europe Essential health and Safety Requirements under ATEX Conformity Assessment Procedures ATEX Typical Marking Quality Modules Assessment of Manufacturing Facilities If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Paul Smith, our meeting scheduler, by phone at (508) 482-7034 or by email at [email protected]. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The NPSS jobs bulletin has been updated with new jobs. The Jobs located within New England are yellow highlighted. The jobs bulletin is available on the NPSS web site at http://www.nepss.org/jobs/jobs.htm. If you have any positions available or would like to post your resume, please contact Dave Lorusso, our job master, through the jobs bulletin. The 2004 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2004_Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South take exit 21B to West Main Street. Counting the first traffic light as the traffic light at the off ramp >from Route 495 South. At the second traffic light, turn left on to South Street (Note: This is on South direction side of Route 495). EMC Corporation is the second driveway on the right. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 111 Locke Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 786-7500 Main (508) 480-6332 Fax [email protected] email This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [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.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
