Prepare for IEC 62368-1, the New Hazard-Based Safety Standard
11/16/2018
In this article published by Power Electronic Tips and appearing in Design World’s November 2018 Power & Energy Efficiency Handbook, Jeff Schnabel, CUI’s VP of Global Marketing, provides an overview of the 60950-1 and 60065 safety standards for ICT and AV equipment, while introducing the new IEC 62368-1 standard set supersede them. The article discusses the hazard-based safety engineering principles (HBSE) that form the basis of 62368-1 and how designers can best make the transition to this fundamentally different standard when it comes time.
