Hello Steve, EN 50371:2000 is indeed a LVD harmonised standard and, and as you already observe, for the R&TTED article 3.1a (health and safety of the user). It applies to safety relating to RF Exposure or Specific Absorbsion Rate (SAR). For Europe, it should be applied in conjunction with Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC (or IMHO the ICNIRP guidelines) which define RF exposure limits.
It applies to apparatus where there is no dedicated RF exposure harmonised standard, i.e. everything except mobile phones (EN 50360), article surveillance / RFID (EN 50364), radio & telecoms fixed base stations (EN 50385 & EN 50401). Normally applies only to intentional transmitters having an average radiated power greater than 20mW, transmitters equal or lower than this are deemed to comply without further assessment. However, unintentional radiators with emissions above this level should be assessed, there is a responsibility for safety to RF exposure regardless of whether the RF is intentional or otherwise. Unintentioal emitters abover the 20mW threshold are likely to have serious EMC emissions issues! Incidentally, there is another generic RF exposure harmonised standard, EN 62311:2008 which covers the spectrum down to 0Hz and includes much detail regarding assessment methods. Hope this helps, best regards, Tony -- How Strong is Your Score? Click here <http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;216545038;39159097;q?http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?pagetypeid=homepage62&sc=669615&bcd=FOOTER1> to see yours for $0! By FreeCreditReport.com <http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;216545038;39159097;q?http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?pagetypeid=homepage62&sc=669615&bcd=FOOTER1> - 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]>
