John Allen's approach and advice is reasonable. Some our more experienced denizens such as Rich Nute and Pete Perkins and have written some articles on safety engineering principles for the PSES newsletter.
Ted Eckert did a session on compliance and regulatory sources at a recent ISPCE. Cannot remember which year, but most of the presentations are available online. And Gary Tornquist did a session on component power supply evaluation at a previous ISPCE. Cannot remember whom (all of the MS people look alike to me) did some sessions on basic stuff such as fuse selection, power strips, building code analysis, and probably other fundamental topics. This listserv has had a few threads on knowledge resources. There are other on-line discussions, such as the numerous LinkedIn groups. And the many Bugs Bunny videos available on youtube. Brian From: Adam Dixon [mailto:lanterna.viri...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 5:18 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Safety standards versus safety engineering For the design engineer who wants to learn more about safety regarding both product design (systems using 85-264VAC sources; mostly digital logic but including an Ethernet physical layer interface) and production test, but is on a very tight budget, are there recommended references? Soft and/or hardcopy are fine. I have searched the archives using a variety of terms to locate recommended references but didn't locate any lists. I've read the discussions about lowest cost sources for standards. IEC 60950-1:2013 is 707 Euros from what I see on the Estonian site. The UL version is $493 for starters. Purchasing any number of standards certainly is a moderate to significant investment for the individual. I checked out the HBSE per Rich's post about how it came to be, but don't have $1050 for the two day workshop at this time either. There look to be a handful of texts on Amazon. Electrical Safety Handbook, 4th edition looks like the most appropriate title -- any benefit with something from Amazon or other publishing house/distributor compared to the actual standards? If I've missed pertinent discussions in the archives or if you would consider sharing a recommended reading/standards list, I would appreciate any guidance/feedback. Kind regards, Adam Dixon adam.di...@ieee.org - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <sdoug...@ieee.org> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
