IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society , Santa Clara Valley Chapter Meeting announcment:
Friends and Colleagues, You won't want to miss this month's meeting as we welcome Rich Pescatore who will be doing a presentation on the new hazard based 62368 standard! There is a REVOLUTION taking place in Safety Standards, and here is a report from the front lines! The biggest hazard would be to miss this presentation! Meeting Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Dinner: 5:45 - 7:00 p.m. Socialize with your colleagues and tonight's speaker at: El Torito Mexican Restaurant, 2950 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408-727-4426) -- just two blocks north of the meeting site. No RSVP required. Program: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. No admission charge. Open to the public. Topic: The Future of Product Safety They said it couldn't be done - a safety standard built on the foundation of Hazard-Based Safety Engineering. But Rich Pescatore is now leading the international effort to create just such a hazard-based safety standard. It will be known as IEC 62368, and its scope will be the Safety of Information and Communication Technology Equipment and Audio / Video Equipment. Mr. Pescatore will review the basis, the scope and the goals of this new standard. He will share his insight into the challenges being overcome to make this standard both accurate and useful, and he will describe the work being done to ensure it will be functional within the IECEE CB Scheme. Speaker: Rich Pescatore Rich Pescatore has over 35 years of experience in the fields of Product Safety and Regulations and presently serves as Hewlett-Packard's Global Product Safety Standards Development and Certification Manager. He is * A Member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society, * Vice Chairman (and past Chairman) of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Technical Regulations Committee, * Head of the US Delegation to the IECEE Certification Management Committee, and * Head of the US Delegation to IEC TC 108 and Convener of the corresponding Working Group developing IEC 62368. Mr. Pescatore was the recipient of the Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal for his demonstrated leadership in the development and promotion of national and international standards. He has been awarded the "IEC 1906 Award" for "his major contribution in the promotion of the IECEE CB Scheme." Mr. Pescatore has a BSEE from California Polytechnic State University and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara. He is a Registered Electrical Engineer in the State of California. Meeting Site: Applied Materials, Bowers Café, 3090 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (map: http://www.scvemc.org/scv2003meetmap.gif ) Chair: Steve Baldwin, steve.bald...@lamrc.com Vice-Chair: Roberto Pasos, rpa...@elliottlabs.com Treasurer: Mark Montrose, mmont...@ix.netcom.com Secretary: Gary Eldridge, geldri...@apple.com - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.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...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
