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From: Doug Powell [mailto:doug...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 February 2017 22:17 To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Do it yourself safety reports? You are correct, I recall in 1995 when the VP of Engineering at my company back then obtained a copy of a few safety standards and attempted to outline and distill requirements for our products. He felt he could make quick work of it but was soon overwhelmed. As it turns out this was the impetus for my start on this career path. He handed me the documents along with his notes and instructions and said to figure it out. Ultimately we brought in a consulting engineer from LGA Nürnberg (www.lga.de) who became my mentor for the next few years. And he is very good and had a real desire to see me excel. Doug On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:58 PM, john Allen <john_e_al...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: Doug I don’t doubt that when you become very familiar with the IEC TRF approach, and what you need to do to make correct use of them, you can become very comfortable with it, but do think back to when you first encountered it as that will, probably, put you in the same position as many development engineers who are in that position now. Also, don’t forget that there will probably be large numbers of engineers who are told that they have to comply with specified standards, but have never even heard of the TRF documents, or, if they have, can get their management to pay for the cost of downloading, and then the time involved “exploring” and understanding them. If those guys then try to comply with the standards, what do you expect them to do when they try to “make head or tail” of the requirements (and I have met “more than a few”)????? John E Allen W. London, 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>
