Hi Frank, Welcome to the community.
The IEEE's Product Safety Engineering Society is a great resource - http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/. The worlds finest Product Safety and Certifications engineers are all members. Conferences in May, November and December is in Asia. I would also get familiar with as many reference Standards as possible - UL 840 and IEC 60664 for Insulation Coordination and UL 746C for Polymeric Materials come to mind. Best Regards, John President - IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society IEEE Senior Member Keeping our members informed and educated on Product Safety and Compliance https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/index.html John Allen | President | Product Safety Consulting, Inc. Your Outsourced Compliance Department® 630-238-0188 www.productsafetyinc.com<http://www.productsafetyinc.com/> Although PSC maintains the highest level of virus protection, this e-mail and any attachments should be scanned by your virus protection software. It is the responsibility of the recipient to check that it is virus free. 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Thank you. ________________________________ From: Lauren Crane <lauren.cr...@us.tel.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:56 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Intro to Safety Hi Frank, If you’re reading S2/S8 I’m guessing you’re in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment SME industry like I am. Welcome. You might want to see if our employeer will send you to the SEMI Standards face to face meetings at their Milpitas HQ April 1-5. You’ll meet a lot of SME EHS peers there and have an opportunity to see S2 and S8 ‘from the inside’ (perhaps not always the best point of view). The number of EU regulations relevant to SME can vary greatly depending on technologies embedded in the equipment. Look out for pressure vessels, intentional transmitters (RF tag readers, Bluetooth mice and keyboards), processes that might occur in intentional explosive atmospheres. Definitely also read through the EU Commission’s guide to the machinery directive and the ‘blue guide’ for CE marking. These things are ever-moving targets. I’ve been working in EU product compliance (and others) since ’95, and I’m still catching up. That’s probably why it’s become a career rather than a task. Cheers, -Lauren Crane Tokyo Electron From: Nyffenegger, Dave <dave.nyffeneg...@bhemail.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:32 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Intro to Safety If you will be working on CE marked machinery then review the requirements for the technical file in the Machinery Directive. Also review requirements in the Low Voltage Directive whether machinery or not. -Dave From: Frank Tang [mailto:00000d3fa4ae712a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ieee.org] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 2:15 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG<mailto:EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> Subject: [PSES] Intro to Safety Hi Compliance Peers, I'm fairly new to compliance, with 4-5 years EMC experience on ITE products for Americas, Europe, Asia, and some Nebs understanding. Recently began a new opportunity, which encompasses EMC and Product Safety for automation. Only begun reading SEMI S2/S8, and IEC 61010-1. My questions are: 1. Additional standards I should learn? 2. Besides EMC and Safety testing testing what other documents is needed for safety, ie. critical component list? 3. How long does the whole process take? Any help would be great. -Frank - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. 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