In general, my experience has been that the required safety notices and statements must always be in paper documents, and the EMC agency notices and statements may be in a CD-ROM. There are a few execeptions amoung the different regulatory agencies, and it would be a very good idea to check with each agency to determine their specific requirements. The thinking behind the safety statement always being in paper docs is that there are certain instructions that you want the user to follow before they power on the computer, and for the EMC statements, if a CD-ROM drive is on the computer then required statements on a CD-ROM are acceptable, but putting them on a website assumes an internet connection, which you cannot guarentee is available to every customer.
Opinions expressed are my own. Thanks- Mark Maynard Regulatory Engineering Consultant WW Regulatory Investigations & Globalization Department WW Regulatory Compliance Dell Computer Corporation "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there's less competition there." - Indira Gandhi From: Jon Jones [mailto:jon.jo...@atltelecom.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:51 AM To: Emc-Pstc (E-mail) Subject: User manual CD web or paper Group, In general circumstances is there any documented legislation regarding the format a user manual can or must be supplied with the product to the customer, (Paper, CD, web address etc) namely if a user manual is to be supplied on CD ROM or via web address , then you must assume that the customer has the correct tools (i.e P.C) to view the information, and in particular if the information contains essential information that the user needs to view before the equipment is used (safety considerations or EMC precautions etc) Any information / thaughts would be appreciated Rgds > Jon Jones > Engineer in Charge > atl telecom > _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. __________________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer of Liability ATL Telecom Ltd shall not be held liable for any improper or incorrect use of the information described and/or contained herein and assumes no responsibility for anyones use of the information. In no event shall ATL Telecom Ltd be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement or substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this system, even if advised of the possibility of such damage. This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
