All,
There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society / CNEC Product Safety Engineering Society meeting next Wednesday, April 25th, at the Holiday Inn, Boxborough MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Steve Brody will be presenting an update on the environmental issues facing electronic and electrical product manufacturers particularly the EU's recast of their RoHS and WEEE Directives. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as advanced notice or membership in NPSS or IEEE PSES is not required. Steve Brody will provide an update on the environmental issues facing electronic and electrical product manufacturers currently or planning to export US made products to the European Union and China, as well as the current status on the use of Conflict Minerals in the US, and environmental requirements in other geographic locations. The primary focus will be the EU's recast of their RoHS and WEEE Directives and the impact they will have on all EE products, including those in Category 8 (Medical), Category 9 (Measurement and Control Equipment), and large-scale stationary industrial tools (LSIT). If your products were exempt or out of scope for the original RoHS and WEEE Directives, they may not be under the recasts - and this will include spare parts, parts being sent back for failure analysis, trade-in, warranty repair, etc.. China RoHS has recently added items to their Catalog, and the requirement for labeling continues even for products that are not in scope of the Catalog. The presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session. Formerly Sr. Manager of Product EHS at Brooks Automation, Steve is currently owner and manager of Product EHS Consulting LLC, a consulting firm specializing in product relate environmental, health. and safety issues. Steve has been actively working in the regulatory and compliance field for almost 40 years and is currently president of the Northeast Product Safety Society and chair of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society's Boston ]and New England] Chapter. Steve is also a member of SEMI's EHS Committee and participates on the WEEE/RoHS, REACH, and Conflict Minerals Working Groups. He can be reached at stev...@productehsconsulting.com and the website is www.PreoductEHSConsulting.com. If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Tony Nikolassy by email at a.nikola...@yahoo.com. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2012 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.net/calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.net. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. Directions: From Route 495 North or South, take Exit 28 to Route 111 East Turn right onto Adams Place (approximately 500 feet from Route 495 North) The Holiday Inn is the last building on the left. Regards, Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary (603) 437-7140 matt.campane...@att.net - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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://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...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
