CEI EN 61010-1

BILINGUAL

Equipment included in scope

This part of IEC 61010 specifies general safety requirements for
the following types of electrical equipment and their accessories,
wherever they are intended to be used.

a) Electrical test and measurement equipment

This is equipment which by electromagnetic means tests,
measures, indicates or records one or more electrical or physical
quantities, also non-measuring equipment such as signal generators,
measurement standards, power supplies for laboratory use,
transducers, transmitters, etc.

NOTE 1 This includes bench-top power supplies intended to aid a
testing or measuring operation on another piece of equipment. Power
supplies intended to power equipment are within the scope of IEC
61558 (see 1.1.2 h)).

This standard also applies to test equipment integrated into
manufacturing processes and intended for testing manufactured
devices.

NOTE 2 Manufacturing test equipment is likely to be installed
adjacent to and interconnected with industrial machinery in this
application.

b) Electrical industrial process-control equipment

This is equipment which controls one or more output quantities
to specific values, with each value determined by manual setting,
by local or remote programming, or by one or more input
variables.

c) Electrical laboratory equipment

This is equipment which measures, indicates, monitors, inspects
or analyses materials, or is used to prepare materials, and
includes in vitro diagnostic (IVD) equipment.

This equipment may also be used in areas other than
laboratories; examples include selftest IVD equipment to be used in
the home and inspection equipment to be used to check people or
material during transportation.

Equipment excluded from scope

This standard does not apply to equipment within the scope
of:

a) IEC 60065 (Audio, video and similar electronic
apparatus);

b) IEC 60204 (Safety of machinery – Electrical equipment of
machines);

c) IEC 60335 (Household and similar electrical appliances);

d) IEC 60364 (Electrical installations of buildings);

e) IEC 60439 (Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear
assemblies);

f) IEC 60601 (Medical electrical equipment);

g) IEC 60950 (Information technology equipment including
electrical business equipment, except as specified in 1.1.3);

h) IEC 61558 (Power transformers, power supply units and
similar);

i) IEC 61010-031 (Hand-held probe assemblies);

j) IEC 61243-3 (Live working – Voltage detectors – Part 3:
Two-pole low-voltage type).