For those of you who are interested in the Colorado Product Safety Technical Committee (CPSTC) minutes, please read on. Don't forget the Product Safety Newsletter (PSN) can now be found at their new website: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/
The Product Safety Technical Committee of the IEEE EMC Society will have updates regarding its annual meeting and Workshop that was held at the 1999 IEEE EMC Symposium in Seattle, WA this past August, on their new website. =========== The July 27, 1999 CPSTC meeting was held at the Hewlett Packard facilities in Colorado Springs. Ron Duffy, HP safety engineer, hosted the meeting. Review of the minutes: 1) Total attendance: Ten 2) The September 15, 1999 Wednesday, is tentative scheduled to be held at the Exabyte facilities. Topics for the September meeting will include: a. Update the chapter of the TC-8 annual meeting and Product Safety workshop minutes from the 1999 IEEE EMC Symposium. The annual meeting and workshop was held in Seattle, WA from August 2 to 6. b. Future presentations to be developed by the chapter for future product safety workshops or tutorials. c. Next year's agenda. d. Elections will be held at the January 2000 meeting. Presently, I will be collecting nominations for chairman. 3) Reviewed with the chapter on the concepts that Ron Duffy and myself are working on to be possibly submitted to next years IEEE symposium and/or the Product Safety Workshop. The symposium and workshop are to be held in Washington, D.C. The ideas and concepts will be submitted to the annual TC-8 meeting that is to be held on Aug. 2, 1999 in Seattle, WA, for their review and inputs. 4) Glen Bolster, a CPSTC member, received a certificate that he successfully completed the HP hazard base course. Good job Glen! 5) Ron Duffy presented a short version from his hazard base course. Ron focused in on "Mitagators". His presentation included the following: a. Insidious hazard - a hazard that exists but the operator, et al, are not aware of. If the hazard is lethal, then use a mitagator to prevent the hazard. b. Belts and suspenders - two levels of protection c. Grounding and insulation - examples were given: isolation ground free environment, protective ground and additional insulation. d. Hazard base sequence evaluations. e. Standard fault tree analysis Richard Georgerian, CPSTC Chair PSTC Secretary Product Compliance Engineer Exabyte 1777 Exposition Drive Boulder, CO 80301 USA tel.: 303-417-7537 fax: 303-417-5710 e-mail: richa...@exabyte.com --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
