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There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society / CNEC Product Safety Engineering Society meeting on Wednesday, September 22nd, at the Holiday Inn, Boxborough MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Brad Bombardier, Senior Project Engineer at Intertek, Boxborough, MA, will present this month’s topic concerning product safety compliance for hazardous locations. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as advanced notice or membership in NPSS or IEEE PSES is not required. Brad Bombardier, P.E., is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has had a varied engineering career in electrical engineering. He spent the early part of his career in system development work for pressure and temperature transmitters which involved analog, digital, and embedded microprocessors. After that, Brad specialized in Product Safety Compliance working as a Project Engineer for Factory Mutual Research (an NRTL). He has the advantage and experience having worked on both sides of the fence. He has worked for manufacturers that sought approval of their products from safety agencies and, he has worked for an agency that tries to hold up a good standard of compliance in manufacturer’s products. Brad will give a presentation on product safety compliance for Hazardous Locations. These are compliance requirements that stem from the Canadian National Electrical Code, The Directives governing commerce in Europe and the United States National Electrical Code (NFPA 70). In addition, Brad will discuss the differences between the Zone systems of hazardous (classified) locations. In the U.S. NEC, the requirements are found in the following Articles: ARTICLE 500 Hazardous (Classified) Locations, Classes I, II, and III, Divisions 1 and 2 ARTICLE 501 Class I Locations ARTICLE 502 Class II Locations ARTICLE 503 Class III Locations ARTICLE 504 Intrinsically Safe Systems ARTICLE 505 Zone 0, 1, and 2 Locations ARTICLE 506 Zone 20, 21, and 22 Locations for Combustible Dusts or Ignitable Fibers/Flyings If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Steve Brody by email at [email protected] <mailto:[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 2010 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.net/calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.net <http://www.nepss.net/Calendar.html> . 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 28 to Route 111 East Turn right onto Adams Place (approximately 500 feet from Route 495 North) The Holiday Inn is the last building on the left. Regards, Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 480-6332 Fax [email protected] email - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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]>
