Our most common and serious safety issue is that of product electrically-caused fire. I subscribe to "In Compliance" weekly recall notices; most are fire.
As Gert Gremmen has stated, no fault-testing has resulted in a product fire in the test lab, yet product fires continue to occur in the field. Clearly, 60950, 61010, and others are not adequate in testing for fire and in specifying fire safeguards. We are doing something wrong. Safety standards are not tested to see if they accomplish the objective. Instead, they are promulgated and use the field as the test bed. Maybe 62368 will improve the product fire situation. Rich - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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.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 <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
