The Safe Design of Electrical Equipment .... (and compliance with the LVD) Training Course

This one day training course describes practical design engineering and testing techniques for achieving safe operation of electrical and electronic equipment, and also to assist in achieving regulatory compliance (for example, with the European Union’s Low Voltage Directive - LVD).

Objectives

The objective is to provide a practical understanding of the equipment and product design and test techniques that are necessary for safety of users and third parties, and regulatory compliance. These techniques will also help limit exposure to liability claims.

Key subjects covered

  1   Basic Safety Principles

• What do we mean by ‘safe’?
• Good practices in safety engineering
• Example of project safety flowchart
• The hierarchy of safety design techniques
• Hazards and risks assessments
• Doing hazard/risk assessments
• Overall safety documentation
• Qualifying and quantifying hazards and risks
• Keeping up to date with safety standards
• National safety laws
• Marketing and Sales and safety
• Making equipment for in-house use
• Competency
• Some examples of useless legal arguments
• Using safety standards
• Why isn’t it enough to simply apply EN standards?
• Functional safety, plus the effect of the electromagnetic environment

  2   Non-CE Marking Safety Directives

• Product Liability (PLD): 85/374/EEC & 99/34/EC
• General Product Safety (GPSD): 92/59/EEC
• Health and Safety Directives

3   Complying with the Low Voltage Directive

• The requirements of the LVD
• What the LVD applies to
• Exclusions to the LVD
• Relationships between the LVD and other safety Directives
• Declaration of conformity
• The LVD’s ‘safety objectives’
• Principal elements of the safety objectives
• The LVD’s definition of ‘safe’
• Conformity assessment procedure
• Creating the Technical Documentation
• Presumption of conformity
• It can be dangerous to rely solely on LVD-listed standards
• Affixing the CE marking
• Enforcement (in England)
• Management of LVD compliance
• The proposed amendment to the LVD

4   Design and Test for ‘Inherent’ Safety (shock, fire, etc.)

• Using the most relevant safety standards
• Single-fault safety
• Electrical shock hazards
• Energy hazards
• Fire hazards
• Heat related hazards
• Mechanical hazards
• Other hazards
• Choosing and using components
• Wiring, supply and construction
• Markings and manuals
• Type testing
• Routine production tests
• Special national conditions
• Special safety techniques

5   Design and Test for Functional Safety(shock, fire, etc.)

• EN 60204-1
• Other functional safety standards
• IEC 61508
• EMC-related functional safety issues
• Applying IEC 61000-1-2

6   Some safety resources.

Who should attend

All electronic designers and their managers, in all industry areas, including:

• Automotive

• Medical and healthcare
• Consumer
• Information Technology (IT)
• Industrial instrumentation or control
• Railway
• Aerospace
• Military
• Telecommunications
• Radiocommunications

Mechanical designers will also find much of the course material very valuable, and the order of delivery of the material can be arranged to make it easy for them to attend part-time.
Alternatively, we can offer a version of this course aimed solely at mechanical designers

About the Lecturer

Keith Armstrong graduated from Imperial College, London, in 1972 with an Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering, has been a member of the IEE (now the IET) since 1977, a UK Chartered Engineer since1978, and a Group 1 European Engineer since 1988. Cherry Clough Consultants was started by Keith in 1990 to help companies reduce costs, timescales and warranty costs whilst also complying with the EMC Directive and other regulations world-wide. Keith has presented many papers, demonstrations, and training courses on EMC, and on EMC for Functional Safety, worldwide, and has also written many articles on these topics. He chairs the IET’s Working Group on “EMC and Functional Safety”, and is the UK’s authorised representative on the IEC teams working on: IEC 61000-1-2 (EMC & Functional Safety, MT15), and IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC for Medical Devices, MT23).

Further Information

• Course Methodology : This course is presented classroom style using a PowerPoint slideshow containing practical illustrations of the techniques to aid understanding. The material is based upon a number of safety standards, including IEC/EN/UL 60950, IEC/EN/UL 61010-1, IEC/EN 60204-1, IEC/EN 60335-1 and IEC 61508, and deals with the principles of safe design rather than go into any one standard in detail.
  Special medical issues, e.g. ‘patient connected equipment’, are not covered in this course, but the safety principles described are of course applicable to medical equipment.
  Case studies that are relevant to the trainees will be included verbally.
  Each attendee will be presented with a bound copy of the PowerPoint slides used during the training, printed monochrome at 6 slides per page. Space is provided for taking notes.
• Course Duration: Two (2) full days, 9:00am – 5:00pm each day.
  This is a very intensive course with a very large amount of practical detail. If presented as an in-house course it can be very usefully combined with individual consultancy for each engineer or manager, to help him or her apply the material to his or her current projects.
• Date : The last Public presentation was 25th - 26th June 2008
• Price : £895.00 per delegate. Fees include course materials, tuition, refreshments and lunches. The price does not include accommodation.
• Venue :  UK
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