Electrical Product Compliance and Safety Engineering

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.

- Why Electrical Product Compliance and Safety?
- International Regulations and Global Market Access
- Products Safety Standards
- Electrical Products Safety Philosophy
- Methods for Failure Analysis
- Risk Management for Product Safety
- Electrical Products Safety Concepts
- Selection of Components
- Batteries
- Power Source
- Product Construction Requirements
- Markings, Indicators and Accompanying Documents
- Human Factors and Product Safety
- Testing for Compliance and Safety
- Manufacturing a Safe Electrical Product
- Education and Training for Compliance and Product Safety Professionals.

Steli Loznen is currently a quality assurance and certification manager at Israel Testing Laboratories Ltd. He received his M.Sc. in electronics and telecommunication from Polytechnic Institute Bucharest, Romania. He is a recipient of the 2017 - IEC 1906 Award.

Constantin Bolintineanu is currently an electrical safety engineer at Tyco Safety Products Canada, a Division of Johnson Controls, where he manages the DSC Testing Laboratory. He received his M.S. in electronics engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, and, he completed a Quality Assurance studies program at Ryerson Polytechnic University of Toronto.

Jan Swart is a practicing electrical engineer with over 22 years of experience. He received his Ph.D. from California Coast University and his masters diploma from Cape Technikon, currently known as Cape Peninsula University of Technology.