In message <[email protected]>, dated Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Brian O'Connell <[email protected]> writes:
>Develop a good working relationship with senior agency engineers. VERY good advice indeed. > >Talk to the safety/compliance engineers of your component suppliers - >if you buy component power supplies, specifically strive to develop a >good relationship with your power supply safety engineers. Also very good. > >If your employer has other safety engineers, ask many questions about >both the 'how' and 'why' of Type Tests. You will learn'how' in great detail. 'Why' is far less certain: many tests have grown up as 'lore' over the years. The IEC 62368 project is an attempt to replace lore with logic, but it's proving a very rough road indeed. > >Expect positions, that perform only safety engineering, to eventually >be outsourced. .. followed by expensive problems and a reconsideration. You can only 'design in' safety unless you want to lose lots of money by imposing it on 'finished' designs. This means that your design engineers need to know the safety standard(s) in depth. As the resident safety expert, you **DAY-TO-DAY** train the designers, do the tests and make sure that the designers did a good job. Outsourcing that function is a recipe for disaster. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Either we are causing global warming, in which case we may be able to stop it, or natural variation is causing it, and we probably can't stop it. You choose! John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - 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
