All, There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society / CNEC Product Safety Engineering Society meeting tomorrow, February 24th, at the Holiday Inn, Boxborough MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Tom Savino, Senior Product Safety Engineer with Curtis-Straus, will present this month�s topic concerning Laser Guards and Laser Safety based on IEC/EN 60825-1. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as advanced notice or membership in NPSS or IEEE PSES is not required.
Tom Savino is a Senior Product Safety Engineer with Curtis-Straus, a subsidiary of Bureau Veritas, where he as been since 1998. He tests and evaluates various types of equipment and machinery, many of which have lasers. He had previously tested consumer products with Merchandise Testing Laboratories for nine years. He is a member of the Northeast Product Safety Society and the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society, and is a NARTE Certified Engineer. Tom�s presentation on Laser Guards and Laser Safety is based on IEC/EN 60825-1 (Safety of laser products � Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements) and ISO/EN 11553-1 (Safety of Machinery-Laser Processing Machines). The first section, �An Overview of IEC60825-4: Laser Guards,� defines the scope of the standard; i.e. who should comply, and provides basic definitions. The second section, �How to Design Laser Processing Equipment With Compliance to IEC60825-4 in Mind,� describes how to assess the foreseeable exposure limit (FEL) of Appendix B, as well as some of the testing that should be considered.. If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Steve Brody by email at steven.br...@brooks.com. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it�s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2009 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.net/calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.net. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South, take Exit 28 to Route 111 East Turn right onto Adams Place (approximately 500 feet from Route 495 North) The Holiday Inn is the last building on the left. Regards, Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 480-6332 Fax matthew.campane...@motorola.com email - 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.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 <emcp...@socal.rr.com> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
