What is BS EN 60695-1-10 ‒ Fire hazard testing of electrotechnical products about?
BS EN 60695-1-10 is a part of an international standard that covers safety guidelines for fire hazard testing.
BS EN 60695-1-10 provides general guidance for fire hazard testing to reduce the tolerable level of the risk of fire and the potential effects of fires involving electrotechnical products. It also serves as a signpost standard to the other guidance publications in the IEC 60695 series.
BS EN 60695-1-10 is intended as guidance to IEC committees and is to be used with respect to their individual applications.
Note 1: BS EN 60695-1-10 does not give guidance on the use of fire-resistant compartment boundaries or on the use of detection and suppression systems for the mitigation of fire risk.
Note 2: Details of the calculation of fire risk are not included in the scope of BS EN 60695-1-10 .
Who is BS EN 60695-1-10 ‒ Fire hazard testing of electrotechnical products