{"title":"Electric shock hazards — Risk assessment and safety management","authors":"T. Lanzisero","doi":"10.1109/ISPCE.2012.6398296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPCE.2012.6398296","url":null,"abstract":"Risk assessment typically includes various stages to identify, analyze and evaluate risk, and to reduce risk as needed. For example, the risk of electric shock could be assessed for a product. But to achieve an acceptable level of safety, and then to maintain that level, and even assess opportunities for improvement, it could be very useful to incorporate this risk assessment into a more complete framework of a safety management process. Such a comprehensive and systematic approach can help to manage the safety of a product, as demonstrated by examples of electric shock hazards. This paper will address electric shock hazards in terms of the ASSET™ Safety Management Process, focusing on hazard analysis and protective measure strategies to reduce the risk of electric shock.","PeriodicalId":245925,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering Proceedings","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125263633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System safety and ISO 26262 compliance for automotive lithium-ion batteries","authors":"W. Taylor, G. Krithivasan, J. J. Nelson","doi":"10.1109/ISPCE.2012.6398297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPCE.2012.6398297","url":null,"abstract":"Lithium ion batteries pave the way for today's plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. However, these batteries contain the potential of thermal runaway, posing a higher safety risk from thermal incidences than NiMH batteries. Thermal runaway can be mitigated using electronic control systems, which are intended to maintain a safe state of the battery under all operating conditions. When safety depends on these control systems, any malfunction of the system or its elements (such as sensors, microcontrollers, contactors, software, etc.) may lead to a dangerous state. The newly published ISO 26262 standard provides processes and methods for the proper design, development and manufacturing of E/E automotive systems to ensure functional safety. In this paper, the ISO 26262 standard is applied to several example scenarios involving lithium-ion batteries for plug-in vehicles. Key concepts are explored and conclusions drawn regarding several of the standard's required processes, including hazard analysis and risk assessment, functional safety concept, functional safety and technical safety requirements, and related topics.","PeriodicalId":245925,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering Proceedings","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131526134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Hall, J. J. Isaacson, C. G. Burhans, J. Frantz, T. Rhoades, R. J. Shah, S. L. Young
{"title":"New editions of ANSI standards for warnings","authors":"S. Hall, J. J. Isaacson, C. G. Burhans, J. Frantz, T. Rhoades, R. J. Shah, S. L. Young","doi":"10.1109/ISPCE.2012.6398290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPCE.2012.6398290","url":null,"abstract":"The ANSI Z535 series of standards related to provision of safety information underwent several changes and revisions as of September 2011, which are published in the 2011 editions. These changes include a new signal word category for safety instructions; a new definition of the signal word “NOTICE” updated definitions for the basic safety terms “harm,” “incident,” and “accident” a modification of signal word letter height requirements to accommodate product safety signs with limited space; harmonization of the Z535.2 and Z535.4 standards for purposes of consistency; and other, minor changes. Along with these revisions, the Z535 committee also discussed the provision of safety information via electronic media and agreed to consider addressing this issue. ANSI Z535.4 subcommittee chairman Steve Hall will report on these updates and the Z535 committee's most recent activities at the IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering in November 2012.","PeriodicalId":245925,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering Proceedings","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115121200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}