BS EN 60695-1-10:2017
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Fire hazard testing – Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products. General guidelines
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| BSI | 2017 | 32 |
This part of IEC 60695‑1 provides general guidance with respect to fire hazard testing on how to reduce to a tolerable level the risk of fire and the potential effects of fires involving electrotechnical products. It also serves as a signpost standard to the other guidance publications in the IEC 60695 series.
It does not give guidance on the use of fire-resistant compartment boundaries or on the use of detection and suppression systems for the mitigation of fire risk.
It describes the relationship between fire risk and the potential effects of fire, and provides guidance to IEC product committees on the applicability of qualitative and quantitative fire tests to the fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products. Details of the calculation of fire risk are not included in the scope of this document.
It emphasises the importance of the scenario approach to fire hazard and risk assessment and discusses criteria intended to ensure the development of technically sound hazard-based fire test methods.
It discusses the different types of fire tests, in particular the nature of qualitative and quantitative fire tests. It also describes the circumstances under which it is appropriate for IEC product committees to maintain or develop qualitative fire tests.
This standard is intended as guidance to IEC committees, and is to be used with respect to their individual applications.
This basic safety publication is intended for use by technical committees in the preparation of standards in accordance with the principles laid down in IEC Guide 104 and ISO/IEC Guide 51 .
One of the responsibilities of a technical committee is, wherever applicable, to make use of basic safety publications in the preparation of its publications. The requirements, test methods or test conditions of this basic safety publication will not apply unless specifically referred to or included in the relevant publications.
PDF Catalog
| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 6 | Annex ZA(normative)Normative references to international publicationswith their corresponding European publications |
| 7 | English CONTENTS |
| 8 | FOREWORD |
| 10 | INTRODUCTION |
| 11 | 1 Scope 2 Normative references |
| 12 | 3 Terms and definitions |
| 14 | 4 Fire hazards associated with electrotechnical products |
| 15 | 5 Fundamentals of fire hazard testing 5.1 Objectives 5.2 Fire hazard and fire risk 5.2.1 Fire hazard |
| 16 | Tables Table 1 – Common causes of ignition encountered in electrotechnical products |
| 17 | 5.2.2 Fire risk |
| 18 | 5.3 Fire scenarios |
| 19 | Table 2 – Characteristics of fire stages (from Table 1 in ISO 19706:2011 [22]) |
| 20 | 5.4 Fire-safety engineering 5.5 Fire hazard assessment 6 Types of fire test 6.1 General 6.2 Quantitative and qualitative groups of fire tests 6.2.1 Quantitative fire tests |
| 21 | 6.2.2 Qualitative fire tests 6.3 Types of fire tests 6.3.1 Fire simulation test 6.3.2 Fire resistance tests 6.3.3 Tests with regard to reaction to fire 6.3.4 Preselection fire tests |
| 22 | 6.3.5 Basic property tests 7 Appropriate use of qualitative fire tests 8 Preparation of requirements and test specifications |
| 23 | 9 Common ignition sources 10 Reference documents of TC 89 |
| 24 | Annex A (informative) The power output of ignition sources A.1 General A.2 Some common electrical and non-electrical ignition sources |
| 25 | A.3 Power source classification in IEC 62368-1 [9] Table A.1 – Examples of ignition sources |
| 26 | Annex B (informative) Guidance publications and test methods Table B.1 – TC 89 guidance publications and test methods |
| 28 | Bibliography |
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