I do not agree. This approach may work for the LVD but it will rapidly lead to a dead end when applied to equipment within the scope of the Machinery Directive.
The approach to the use of standards defined in the Machinery Dorective is somewhat different to that which is normally applied under the LVD. Crudely put, the Machinery Directive approach to standards is to use the bits which are relevant and to ignore the bits which are not. EN 60335-1 is listed under the Machinery Directive in the OJ and so I can see no difficulty whatsoever is using relevant parts of it to demonstrate compliance with the EHSR's of the Directive. It may well be that additional measures are also required, but this is a judgment that the individual user will have to make. In any event, from the scope of EN 60335-1: "Appliances not intended for normal household use but which nevertheless may be a source of danger to the public, such as appliances intended to be used by laymen in shops, in light industry and on farms, are within the scope of this standard." which seems to pretty clearly open the possibility that this product is within the scope of EN 60335-1 even if it is not a 'household appliance'. Regards Nick. At 5:04 pm +0100 19/4/06, John Woodgate wrote: >In message <p06230913c06c0af6358b@[192.168.1.62]>, dated Wed, 19 Apr >2006, Nick Williams <[email protected]> writes >>EN 60335-1 is the easiest of the appliance/equipment safety >>standards to use, IMO. > >But the device doesn't seem to be a household appliance. It is most >unwise to use a safety standard outside its scope. - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
