Hi Folks,
When I recently asked an OEM for a UL EN60950-1 safety report for an ITE product, instead of the usual single PDF, compiled with all the required sections, I got a zip file containing all the sections as loose-leaf rtf and jpg documents. In this case, there were sections from an original report, an amendment the following year, and a later report that same year. If this were a simple report I could just compile it into a single PDF by referring to similar examples, but that is not the case here. I don’t even know where to start with this and the OEM doesn’t seem to have the expertise either. Since it was a UL report, I called UL to talk about it, however, they were only able to respond that they couldn’t comment on the report because it’s the proprietary information of a customer. Well, that can’t be the whole answer. Surely there are standard(s) that govern what goes in this report, therefore, my question (as to the completeness and the order of sections in the report) can be answered without using the proprietary information of a customer, other than that contained in the file that was released to my company. How else could any inspector evaluate a safety report? Short of taking enough classes in Safety Engineering (I’m not opposed, but there is no budget at this point), is there a good way to sort this out, or at least work around it? If I asked UL a different question or approached it >from a different angle, might they give a more useful answer? Any perspective on this would be appreciated. Right now it feels like being in an episode from the Twilight Zone…. Best Regards, George Stults WatchGuard Technologies Inc. - 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]>
