Re: [PSES] RoHS on Hardware

[Dan Roman, N.C.E.]

On 05/20/14, John Woodgate<jmw@JMWA.DEMON.CO.UK> wrote:

 

> At least it seems that the requirement to discard (dead) fish that
> shouldn't have been caught is being changed. Maybe someone, thinking no
> further than line fishing in a river, thought that if thrown back they
> would come alive again.

 

I believe the reasoning for the fish is if they allowed fisherman to keep the

by-catch they would have no incentive to avoid catching what they were not

fishing for in the first place.

 

Perhaps the same sort of logic is being applied in the area of RoHS and

other Directives in respect to "previously owned" equipment whether or

not it was already on the market.  Give manufacturers an "out" and they

might find ways to use it too often.

 

I do not know if any of this is based on actual surveillance and statistics or

by study of human nature.

 

-- 

Dan Roman, N.C.E.
Senior Member, IEEE
VP Communications Services
IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society

mailto:dan.roman@ieee.org

http://www.ieee-pses.org

 

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