Practical Guide to Low Voltage Directive

Gregg Kervill has more than twenty years of electronics R&D experience and has designed products for the high volume consumer, industrial process controls, mining, aerospace and defence markets. He trained in Product Safety whilst working for the Digital Equipment Corporation before founding GK Consultants Limited in Southampton, UK, in 1993. He is now based in Richmond, Virginia, USA where he continues to deliver Product Safety lectures, seminars and services worldwide through Eurolink Ltd and distance learning programmes via www.test4safety.com.Agency organisations that have consulted Gregg include the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Brussels Director Generate Office (EC-DG3). Gregg is also listed as an LVD Consultant on the European Community PRAQ III FAST database.Gregg is a member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE education committee.

"Reasonable use and foreseeable abuse are the watch words for safety and this book tries to put that into context, rather that trying to make the burden of compliance go away through quick fix remedies... As well as focusing on LVD, this book also manages to give an overview of all new approach directives which in itself achieves something most other publications have been unable to do." --New Electronics

• 1. Introduction2. The Directives3. Briefing notes to key job functions4. Directives, standards and essential requirements5. A detailed guide to EN 609506. Achieving compliance7. A simple guide to designs and reviews8. Simple guide to flammability requirements9. Creepage and clearance10. Summary