Quality and Standards in Electronics

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Quality

and

Standards

in

Electronics

6.5

BSI

SCh81118S

The BSI leads the world in providing systems of quality assurance and

accreditation. As described in Appendix 6A, such schemes are an essential

marketing tool to gain or maintain market penetration for the manufacturer.

Other schemes operated by the BSI include those described below.

6.5.

1 British

Approvals

Service

for

Electric

Cables

The UK Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 imposed a duty to 'ensure, so

far as is reasonably practicable, that the (cable) is designed and constructed

to be safe and without risk to health when properly used'. The safety

provisions of the Low Voltage Directive of the Council ...