This comprehensive resource is designed to guide professionals in product compliance and safety in order to develop more profitable products, contribute to customer satisfaction, and reduce the risk of liability. This book analyzes the principles and methods of critical standards, highlighting how they should be applied in the field. It explores the philosophy of electrical product safety and analyzes the concepts of compliance and safety, perception of risk, failure, normal and abnormal conditions, and redundancy. Professionals find valuable information on power sources, product construction requirements, markings, compliance testing, and manufacturing of safe electrical products.

This book provides a practical approach for equipment safety design and assessment for electrical, electronic and electro-mechanical products. It describes the safety concepts and requirements as found in the international IEC and European harmonized standards. It provides ways and means to improve product design so as to ensure reasonable compliance when a product is subject to safety evaluation by a test laboratory as a part of CE marking process. Its goal is to give equipment designers and manufacturers a better understanding of European and international safety considerations, including the safety philosophy. The information is generally applicable to most product types such as information technology equipment (ITE), test and measurement devices, appliances, machinery, and other similar equipment. It also includes the procedure of risk assessment which is a mandatory part of the safety compliance process as per the new version of LVD

Electrical Product Safety: A Step-by-Step Guide to LVD Self Assessment provides a step-by-step approach to meeting the LVD and reducing safety approval costs. It is a practical and easy to follow guide aimed at helping manufacturers of electrical products, and in particular small and medium sized businesses to understand the requirements of the LV regulations, understand the basic safety principles, self assess their products and create customised safety reports. The guide is presented in four parts: the first part examines the regulations, their enforcement and the concept of due diligence; the second and most detailed part takes the reader through the process of product self evaluation and report compilation; part three deals with the documentation, i.e. how to compile a technical file and how to prepare a declaration of conformity; finally part four explains how to set up factory and production control systems. Electrical Product Safety has been written by a Trading Standards Office (D. Holland) and an experienced Safety Approvals Engineer (J. Tzimenakis). A complete, practical guide to meeting core EU legal requirements Designed for easy application by small and medium companies, not just large technical teams Expertise of an author who has set up a similar system at Sony, and supplies supporting software