International Electrotechnical Commission

Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use – General requirements for equipment intended to be used in educational establishments by children - Edition 1.0
 N TS 62850

Annotation

Equipment included in scope

This Technical Specification IEC 62850 specifies general safety requirements for the following types of equipment and their accessories intended to be used in educational establishments by persons between the age of 3 years and the age of 16 years under the supervision of the RESPONSIBLE BODY.

If all or part of the equipment falls within the scope of one or more part 2 standards of IEC 61010 as well as within the scope of this technical specification, it will also need to meet the requirements of those other part 2 standards.

NOTE 1 In some countries age limits can be different from those used in this technical specification or can be replaced by capability requirements.

a) Electrical test and measurement equipment

This is equipment which by electromagnetic means tests, measures, indicates or records one or more electrical or physical quantities, also non-measuring equipment such as signal generators, measurement standards, power supplies for laboratory use, transducers, transmitters, etc.

NOTE 2 This includes bench-top power supplies intended to aid a testing or measuring operation on another piece of equipment. Power supplies intended to power equipment are within the scope of IEC 61558 (see 1.1.2 h)).

This Technical Specification also applies to test equipment integrated into manufacturing processes and intended for testing manufactured devices.