Electrical Product Compliance and Safety Engineering

This comprehensive new resource is designed to guide professionals in product compliance and safety in order to develop more profitable products, contribute to customer satisfaction, reduce the risk of liability, and build confidence in meeting requirements of standards and regulatory bodies. This book analyzes sets of concepts, principles and methods, and highlights how they should be applied in the field. International regulations, product safety standards, failure analysis, risk management, product safety concepts, selection of components, product construction, testing for compliance and safety, and manufacturing safe products are presented in this book. This resource explores the philosophy of electrical product safety and analyzes the concepts of safety, reliability, perception of risk, failure, single fault safe, redundancy, and explains the differences between work safety and product safety.