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Product Safety Certification

Updated 20 Oct 2008

To strive for the advancement of the theory and practice of applied electrical and electronic engineering as applied to product safety and of the allied arts and sciences.

Newsletters

Current issues of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering newsletters can be found in the society members only section of this web site. Membership in the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society is required to access the newsletters. See the society members only section for access instructions.

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Back issues of the PSES newsletters can be found at the bottom of this page.

The Product Safety Newsletter

The Newsletter was first published in March of 1985. It included a Chairman's Message and Chapter Activity report. Soon after the first edition, Rich Nute began writing the widely popular Technically Speaking column. In 15 years of publication, it peaked at around 1100 copies, sent out every other month by mail, supported by institutional listings. In November 1998, with a tiring staff and shortage of income from listings, it was decided to stop mailing hard copies and start a web-based publication. In December, 1996, Roger Volgstadt, editor of the Newsletter started an email list server, “emc-pstc” for the benefit of the engineering community worldwide related to EMC and product safety.

Members of PSES have collected most of the newsletters from 1988 to 1998, converted them to PDF, and they are now available here on the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society's web site. Enjoy!

The web-based version of the Product Safety Newsletter (new issues stopped in 2003) can be found on the TC-8 web site. The Product Safety Engineering Society's Newsletter and Journal pick up where the Product Safety Newsletter left off.

Vol/#	Date	Technically Speaking Feature
1/1	1988	none
1/2	1988	none
1/3	1988 Apr	Understanding creepage distances
1/4	1988 May	CSA 1402A: energy discharge
1/5	1988 Jun	Double fusing or fusing both sides of the line
1/6	1988 Jul	Energy hazard
1/7	1988 Aug	Behavior of air and solid insulations in series
1/8	1988 Sep-Oct	Resistor value for measuring leakage current
1/9	1988 Nov-Dec	The hazards of multiple grounding
2/1	1989 Jan-Feb	Thermocouples and temperature measurement
2/2	1989 Mar-Apr	Characteristics of air as an insulator
2/3	1989 May-Jun	The hi-pot test
2/4	1989 Jul-Oct	Theory of equipment grounding impedance
2/5	1989 Nov-Dec	Electrically-caused fire in multi-layer boards
3/1	1990 Jan-Feb	The pitfalls of pass-fail testing
3/2	1990 Mar-Apr	The use of over-current protection in plug-and-socket connected equipment
3/3	1990 May-Jun	Selecting a fuse value
3/4	1990 Jul-Aug	Selecting a fuse value
3/5	1990 Sep-Oct	none
3/6	1990 Nov-Dec	Some thoughts about interlocks
4/1	1991 Jan-Feb	Capacitive discharge shock from CRT faceplates
4/2	1991 Mar-Apr	none
4/3	1991 May-Aug	Testing purposes
4/4	1991 Sep-Oct	Testing purposes
4/5	1991 Nov-Dec	none
5/1	1992 1rst half	Limited current circuits
5/2	1992 2nd half	none
6/1	1993 Jan-Feb	Body Resistance: A Review
6/2	1993 Mar-Apr	Electric Shock From Radios - A Review
6/3	1993 May-Jun	Testing safety into products
6/4	1993 Jul-Sep	Working Voltage, Electric Strength and Spacings
6/5	1993 Oct-Nov	none
6/6	1993 Dec	The Myth of Accessibility
7/1	1994 Jan-Feb	Leakage Current Measuring Circuits
7/2	1994 Mar-Apr	Transients in Secondary Circuits
7/3	1994 May-Jun	Electrically-caused fire
7/4	1994 Jul-Aug	Fire enclosures
7/5	1994 Sep-Oct	Fire Prevention
7/6	1994 Nov-Dec	Markings and other aggravations
8/1	1995 Jan-Feb	none
8/2	1995 Mar-Apr	Two measures, two levels
8/3	1995 May-Aug	Operational insulation in IEC 950
8/4	1995 Sep-Oct	Absolute Safety
8/5	1995 Nov-Dec	Power systems and polarization
9/1	1996 Jan-Mar	Derivation of grounding impedance
9/2	1996 Apr-Jun	Models for protection against injury
9/3	1996 Jul-Sep	none
9/4	1996 Oct-Dec	The dielectric withstand test
10/1	1997 Jan-Mar	The 25-amp grounding impedance test
10/2	1997 Apr-Jul	More 25-amp grounding impedance test
11/1	1998 Jan-Mar	Hi-pot test current

Product Safety Engineering Society Newsletter back issues

September 2005, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1.9 MB)
- Persuasion in Product Safety
- Wheel Chair
- Ground Bond Testing

March 2006, Vol. 2, No. 1 (10.4 MB)
- Power over Ethernet (PoE)
- UL Standards Technical Panels
- Symposium Report

June 2006, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1.4 MB)
- Meeting One Country's Standards
- ANSI Z535.6
- Overall Residual Risk

September 2006, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1.9 MB)
- Standardization
- Back to Basics
- The New 60601
December 2006, Vol. 2, No. 4 (2.5 MB)
- The Role of Warnings and Instructions
- Symposium Report
- Comparison of IEC 61000-4-3
March 2007, Vol. 3, No. 1 (7.5 MB)
- Technically Speaking - PSU Class 1 design
- Defining and Designing for the Reasonable Person
June 2007, Vol. 3, No. 2 (4.1 MB)
- Technically Speaking - Safety Critical Components
- Effect of Thin Solid Insulating Material
- 2007 CSA/RIA Robot Safety Conference Report
October 2007, Vol. 3, No. 3 (7.5 MB)
- Technically Speaking - Principles of Thermally-caused Injury
- PSEN Visits UL University
- Changes to Bylaws

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