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Specifies essential requirements regarding protection against electric shock of persons and livestock. It deals also with the application and co-ordination of these requirements in relation to external influences.

IEC 60364-4-42:2010+A1:2014 applies to electrical installations with regard to measures for the protection of persons, livestock and property against: - thermal effects, combustion or degradation of materials, and risk of burns caused by electrical equipment, - flames in case of a fire(...)

Deals with the selection of equipment and its erection. It provides common rules for compliance with measures of protection for safety, requirements for proper functioning for intended use of the installation, and requirements appropriate to the external influences foreseen.

Deals with the selection and erection of wiring systems.

Apply to the electrical installations of PV power supply systems including systems with AC modules

IEC 60364-7-753:2014 applies to embedded electric heating systems for surface heating. It also applies to electric heating systems for de-icing or frost prevention or similar applications. 

IEC 60364-8-1:2014 provides additional requirements, measures and recommendations for the design, erection and verification of all types of low-voltage electrical installation including local production and storage of energy for optimizing the overall efficient use of electricity. 

Gives guidelines for scintillation detectors nomenclature (identification) and standard dimensions of scintillators. Is applicable to all types of solid organic and inorganic scintillators used in detectors for scintillation counting and spectrometry.

IEC 60462:2010(E) establishes test procedures for photomultiplier tubes (PMT) for scintillation and Cherenkov detectors.

Applies to coaxial connectors associated with electrical measuring instruments used in nuclear instrumentation. Establishes standard dimensions of the mating parts, construction and mounting rules, voltage rating and test voltages, mininium insulation requirements, maximum contact resistances(...)

IEC 60502-2:2014 specifies the construction, dimensions and test requirements of power cables with extruded solid insulation from 6 kV up to 30 kV for fixed installations such as distribution networks or industrial installations. 

Describes characteristics and tests methods for gas-filled radiation detectors used for the protection of nuclear reactors. Applies to the radiation detectors which are installed external to the core of nuclear reactors and which provide electrical input signals to the reactor's control and(...)

Applicable to non-dispersive infra-red analyzers specified for installation either indoors or outdoors and used for the continuous determination of certain aspects of air quality by measuring the gaseous constituents.

Applies to the classification of degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical equipment with a rated voltage not exceeding 72,5 kV.

Applies to installed dose rate meters, warning assemblies and monitors that are used to prevent or mitigate a minor radioactive release, or minor degradation of fuel, within the nuclear power plants/nuclear facility design basis, and to warn personnel or to ensure their safety during or(...)

Provides guidance for the design of in-core instrumentation for neutron fluence rate measurements in thermal neutron reactors designed for power production. Applies to on-line in-core neutron detectors, together with associated components and instrumentation, designed for purposes important to(...)

Establishes mandatory requirements and gives a list of characteristics of equipment for grading and sorting radioactive ores in containers at minehead and in opencast workings.

Medical electrical equipment – Part 1-12: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance – Collateral Standard: Requirements for medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems intended for use in the emergency medical services environment.

IEC 60601-1-2:2014 applies to the basic safety and essential performance of Medical Equipment (ME) equipment and ME systems in the presence of electromagnetic disturbances and to electromagnetic disturbances emitted by me equipment and me systems. 

Applies to X-ray equipment and to subassemblies of such equipment, where radiological images of a human patient are used for diagnosis, planning or guidance of medical procedures. The object of this collateral standard is to establish general requirements for protection against X-radiation in(...)

The objective of this collateral standard is to improve the environmental impact for the entire range of medical electrical equipment, taking into account all stages of the product life cycle:

IEC 60601-2-1:2009+A1:2014 applies to the basic safety and essential performance of electron accelerators in the range 1 MeV to 50 MeV, used for treatment of patients. This particular standard establishes requirements to be complied with by manufacturers in the design and construction of(...)

IEC 60601-2-64:2014 applies to the basic safety and essential performance of Light Ion Beam Medical Electrical equipment, hereafter referred to as ME equipment, used for treatment of patients.

IEC 60601-2-68:2014 applies to the basic safety and essential performance of X-ray based image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) equipment for use with External Beam Equipment (EBE). This particular standard covers safety aspects of kilovoltage and megavoltage X-ray imaging devices in a known(...)

This standard serves as a basis for the formulation of guarantees on cavitation pitting on Pelton turbine runners. It also provides a basis for the measurement and evaluation of the amount of cavitation pitting on Pelton turbine runners of a given turbine, which is defined in the contract by(...)

Summarizes the present position on difference in limits and attitudes towards non-ionizing hazards adopted by a number of different countries, and by the IEC and other international organizations, in standards and recommendations.

Lays down principles for testing I&C systems performing category A, B and C functions, per IEC 61226, during normal power operation and shutdown, so as to check the functional availability especially with regard to the detection of faults that could prevent the proper operation of the(...)

Recommendations are presented for uniform practice with regard to block transfers in CAMAC modular instrumentation and digital interface systems of IEC 60516.

Provides general guidance on how to reduce to acceptable levels the risk of fire and the potential effects of fires involving electrotechnical products. It also describes the relationship between fire risk and the potential effects of fire, it also emphasises the importance of the scenario(...)

IEC 60695-1-11:2014 provides guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products and for the resulting development of fire hazard testing as related directly to harm to people, animals or property. It outlines a hazard-based process to identify appropriate fire test methods and(...)