What's coming up in 2020?
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Each month the BSI Member Portal publishes articles exclusively for members. As we embark on a brand new decade we look ahead to forthcoming highlights in standards in 2020, including the very latest in road lighting design and the legal implications involved in electronically stored information.
Control of hazardous energies
In February BSI publishes a standard that provides guidance for the control of hazardous energy while work is carried out on machines.
This standard includes all types of hazard but sets out detailed requirements in relation to electrical and mechanical hazards (i.e. moving parts, or parts that can move).
It also provides requirements for fixed equipment, such as motors and pumps fed via plug and socket outlets.
Installation and maintenance of gas-fired catering appliances
In March BSI publishes a standard that specifies requirements for the installation, servicing, and maintenance of new and previously used gas-fired catering appliances used in catering establishments, burning second (natural gas and substitute natural gases) or third (liquefied petroleum gases) family gases. It covers a wide range of appliances such as cookers, fish-and-chip frying ranges, ovens, café boilers and urns, and tandoori ovens, as well as the installation of domestic cookers and leisure appliances (such as barbecues) when installed in commercial catering establishments.
Welding consumables
Looking further ahead to publications in May, BS EN ISO 14341focuses on requirements for the classification of wire electrodes and weld deposits in the as-welded condition and in the post-weld heat-treated condition for gas-shielded metal arc welding of non-alloy and fine grain steels with a minimum yield strength of up to 500 MPa or a minimum tensile strength of up to 570 MPa.
Electronically stored information — Part 1
Also publishing in May, BS 10008-1, Evidential weight and legal admissibility of electronically stored information (ESI) — Part 1: Specification, focuses on requirements for the implementation and operation of electronic information management systems, including the storage and transfer of ESI, so that users are able to ensure the authenticity and integrity of the ESI and that it is trustworthy and is either accepted without dispute or successfully resists challenge. These issues are important where the ESI might be used as evidence – whether for business, compliance, legal or other dispute resolution purposes.
Electronically stored information — Part 2
Following on from Part 1, Part 2 of the standard provides recommendations for the implementation and operation of information management systems that manage information electronically (including where the electronic information is transferred from one computer system to another) and where issues of authenticity, integrity and availability – as required for legal admissibility and evidential weight – are important. It describes the processes for use in the identification and development of policies and procedures as specified in Part 1, in relation to the management of ESI.
Water safety planning
Publishing later in May, BS 8680, Water safety planning in buildings — Code of practice, provides recommendations and guidance for the development of a Water Safety Plan (WSP) for premises and undertakings with water systems that can pose a risk to people exposed, either from the water itself or aerosols derived from it, and where a WSP is recommended within existing national guidance, such as in healthcare.
The standard applies to WSP development for new buildings, modifications and renovations to existing water systems, and can also be applied retrospectively to control risks to health from all types of water use.
Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works
June sees the introduction of a standard that specifies the principles and requirements for security-minded information management, as well as the security-minded management of sensitive information that is obtained, created, processed, and stored as part of, or in relation to, any other initiative, project, asset, product or service.
This standard is intended for use by any organization that is involved in the use of digital engineering and related technologies, as well as the provision of services, within the built environment.
Road lighting design
Part 1 of this July standard provides recommendations on the general principles of road lighting and its aesthetic and technical aspects.BS 5489-1, Design of road lighting — Part 1: Lighting of roads and public amenity areas – Code of practice, gives guidance on minimizing energy consumption and provides recommendations for the design of lighting for all types of highway and public thoroughfares, including those specifically for pedestrians and cyclists, and for pedestrian subways and bridges.
This standard also gives recommendations for lighting design in urban centres and around airports, railways, coastal waters, harbours and navigable waterways.
Lighting in the work place
Continuing the lighting theme, publishing in November, BS EN 12464-1, Light and lighting — Lighting of work places — Part 1: Indoor work places, specifies lighting requirements for people in indoor work places. This document specifies requirements for lighting solutions for most indoor work places and their associated areas in terms of quantity and quality of illumination. In addition, recommendations are given for good lighting practice, including visual and non-visual (non-image forming) lighting needs.
Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies
Publishing later in November, BS EN 61439-2, Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies — Part 2: Power switchgear and controlgear assemblies, outlines the specific requirements of power switchgear and controlgear 140 assemblies, including:
- assemblies for which the rated voltage does not exceed 1,000 V (AC) or 1,500 V (DC);
- assemblies for use in photovoltaic installations designated as a photovoltaic assembly; and
- assemblies designed for use under special service conditions, for example in ships and in trains.
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