Many years ago, a group of R&D engineers came to me and said: "We want to learn about product safety, but we don't want to read the standards." The result was the HBSE course.
If the product safety engineer does his job, there will be no test failures. Best regards, Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: Nyffenegger, Dave > [mailto:dave.nyffeneg...@bhemail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 12:41 PM > To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > Subject: Re: [PSES] Estonian Standards MultiUser > License > > Same message I've been communicating here internally > as well. Management certainly supports and expects to > have it right the first time but educating on what needs to > happen and by who to accomplish that seems to be a > recurring theme. > > -Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Woodgate > [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 2:48 PM > To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > Subject: Re: [PSES] Estonian Standards MultiUser > License > > In message > <BLUPR0701MB8208F224B64620D128B43E9E31E0@ > BLUPR0701MB820.namprd07.prod.out > look.com>, dated Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Brian Ceresney > <bceres...@delta-q.com> > writes: > > > As a matter of fact, it is very difficult to get our > engineers to > >take an interest in reading and understanding the > standards at all, > > That is BAD. I forestalled it with my group by > explaining that while the safety and EMC experts did the > tests, THEY were responsible for THEIR designs > conforming. They were, of course, free to ask advice and > assistance from the experts, but when the designs came to > be tested, I said that I did not expected them to fail. > > Senior managers found this arrangement seriously > intellectually challenging. Of course, what it does is > eliminate almost all friction between the designers and > the 'testers' - they are all in the same boat, which is as it > should be. > -- > OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See > www.jmwa.demon.co.uk When I turn my back on the > sun, it's to look for a rainbow John Woodgate, J M > Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK > - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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.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 <sdoug...@ieee.org> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
