IEC 61010 explained
The IEC 61010 series of standards are developed and maintained by IEC TC 66 and covers the safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory use.
Parts
It has the following parts.
General requirements
- Part 2-011: Particular requirements for refrigerating equipment
- Part 2-012: Particular requirements for climatic and environmental testing and other temperature conditioning equipment
- Part 2-020: Particular requirements for laboratory centrifuges
- Part 2-030
Particular requirements for equipment having testing or measuring circuits
- Part 2-031: Safety requirements for hand-held and hand-manipulated probe assemblies for electrical test and measurement
- Part 2-032: Particular requirements for hand-held and hand-manipulated current sensors for electrical test and measurement
- Part 2-033: Particular requirements for hand-held multimeters for domestic and professional use, capable of measuring mains voltage
- Part 2-034: Particular requirements for measurement equipment for insulation resistance and test equipment for electric strength
- Part 2-040: Particular requirements for sterilizers and washer-disinfectors used to treat medical materials
- Part 2-042
Particular requirements for autoclaves and sterilizers using toxic gas for the treatment of medical materials, and for laboratory processes (Withdrawn)
- Part 2-051: Particular requirements for laboratory equipment for mixing and stirring
- Part 2-061: Particular requirements for laboratory atomic spectrometers with thermal atomization and ionization
- Part 2-081: Particular requirements for automatic and semi-automatic laboratory equipment for analysis and other purposes
- Part 2-091: Particular requirements for cabinet X-ray systems
- Part 2-101: Safety requirements for in vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical equipment
- Part 2-202: Particular requirements for electrically operated valve actuators
EU Application
Many of the parts of this series have been harmonized by CENELEC CLC/SR 66 "Safety of measuring, control, and laboratory equipment"[1] as EN stanards, and almost all of them eventually get published in the Official Journal and receive Presumption of Conformity for the EU Low Voltage Directive, as seen in the lists of harmonised standards (PDF Version).
Notes and References
- EVS-EN 61010-1:2010/A1:2019 Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use - Part 1: General requirements, EESTI Estonian Centre for Standardization, 2019, pg 4
