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CENELEC President awarded MBE for services to Electrical Manufacturing Industry(08/08/2011)
A key industry figure for 25 years, David Dossett has been awarded an MBE for services to the Electrical Manufacturing Industry. As a past CEO of BEAMA, the UK association for the electrical industry, he brought together many different product groups under a single association banner, which has assisted both industry and Government, in UK and Europe, to establish better and more fruitful relationships. Mr Dossett will receive his award at an inve... [more]
Schneider Electric's UK manager for standards and certification recognised by CENELEC(09/03/2010)
CENELEC is the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization and works with 15,000 technical experts from 30 European countries. CENELEC’s mission is to prepare voluntary electrotechnical standards that help develop the single European market for electrical and electronic goods and services, removing barriers to trade, creating new markets and cutting compliance costs, while helping to ensure common levels of safety across Europe. P... [more]
New chairman for the electrical safety of machinery CENELEC committee (01/02/2010)
Peter Still, industry standards manager at Schneider Electric, has been announced as the chairman for the CENELEC committee TC44X, which has the title “Safety of machinery: electrotechnical aspects”. The previous chairman left the role last year and Peter has now been confirmed in post. Peter has a long history of standards work and has been involved with TC44X for the last 14 years since becoming standards manager with Schneider Electric. Hav... [more]
BEAMA Executive Chairman elected President of CENELEC(25/11/2009)
Dave Dossett, BEAMA’s Executive Chairman has been elected as President of CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation). David Dossett B.Sc. MIEE is a chartered engineer with experience in the electricity supply and oil industries. He has over 20 years’ experience in international standardisation. In 1991, he joined BEAMA as Association Director. He was a Director of ASTABEAB Certification Services Ltd (1991–2007) and Chai... [more]
ENEC Mark Certification Scheme expanded to all electrical products(13/01/2009)
ENEC is the European mark for electrical products that demonstrates compliance with European safety standards. The ENEC Mark Certification Scheme has now been expanded to all electrical products, creating a single independent high quality safety mark for Europe. Commenting at the re-launch event in Paris, attended by European manufacturers, standardisers, certification bodies and consumer associations, keynote speaker Mike Vint, Past President... [more]
ATLAS clarifies how risk assessments should be performed under BS EN 62305(03/12/2008)
Contractors in the lightning protection industry may have received correspondence regarding “official risk assessment software” for BS EN 62305. The ATLAS Lightning Conductor Committee are concerned that this correspondence may have caused confusion as to the manner in which risk assessments should be performed under BS EN 62305 and as the trade body for the industry ATLAS have issued this Technical Update with a view to ensuring best practice i... [more]
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