I agree with Rich that is one of the problems, and I would add that it is the main problem with the proliferation of product-specific standards.
If the principles of product safety (shock, energy, mechanical, chemical) are universal, then it should be possible to write 2 or 3 generic product safety standards covering a wide variety of electrical equipment. Or, product-specific standards could make (or should have made) extensive use of a reference document, as does IEC62040-1 for example. In that example, 60950-1 is the "RD". Thoughts? Ralph McDiarmid Product Compliance Engineering Solar Business Schneider Electric From: Richard Nute [mailto:ri...@ieee.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 4:26 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Applicable standards for hoverboard in EU In electrical part and charger, should we apply EN 60204-1 or EN 60950-1 and EN 60335-2-29 or EN 61558-2-6? This is one of the problems of product-specific safety standards. In 1961, James J. Gibson postulated that injury was due to an energy source impinging on a body part. We wouldn’t have this problem if our standards were based on energy sources such as electrically-caused thermal energy and resulting fire. Rich ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. ______________________________________________________________________ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <mailto: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 List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <mailto:sdoug...@ieee.org> Mike Cantwell <mailto:mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <mailto:j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <mailto:dhe...@gmail.com> ________________________________ This message was scanned by Exchange Online Protection Services. ________________________________ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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>
