December’s Update Standards magazine: medical devices, alloys and fire doors

This month’s Update Standards magazine is packed with all the news about standards. There are full lists of new standards, revised ones, withdrawn ones, BS implementations of European standards, new standards started, and standards open to public comment, and more.

Nearly 90 pages of up-to-the-minute information, with a neat easy-to-use reference index so you can locate your sector’s standards quickly.

December’s Update Standards highlights include:

Two medical electrical equipment safety standards are now more usable

We’ve now published two amended standards:
BS EN 60601-1:2006+A2:2021 Medical electrical equipment - Part 1: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance.
BS EN 60601-1-2:2015+A1:2021 Medical electrical equipment – Part 1-2: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance – Electromagnetic disturbances – Requirements and tests.

Both specify requirements that ensure the basic safety and essential performance of medical electrical equipment and systems.

BS 7273-4:2015+A1:2021 Code of practice for the operation of fire protection measures

It’s now time to get the amended fire door release mechanism standard.
BS 7273-4:2015+A1:2021 covers the electrical control arrangements for activating mechanisms that unlock, release or open doors in the event of fire. It covers any buildings, including dwellings, unless otherwise stated. This standard will improve safety, increase trust in products and better manage associated risk.

The revised alloyed ingot specification is available

The European standard on alloyed ingots for remelting has been revised to bring it up to date with industry needs. BS EN 1676:2020 Aluminium and aluminium alloys – Alloyed ingots for remelting – Specifications defines requirements for grades of alloyed aluminium
ingots intended for remelting.

National standards out for review in 2022

BSI is reviewing its national standards this year and we’d like to hear your views. The committees responsible for these standards are currently considering whether they are still valid, need to be amended or revised or are no longer in use and can be withdrawn.
To find out what national standards are out for review in 2022, please download the list here.

If you have any views on any standards on the list, please email BSUKoperations.review@bsigroup.com by 31 March 2022 and we will pass them to the committee concerned for their consideration.

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• New and revised British Standards (BS) that were
made available last month.

• British Standard implementations of the English language
versions of European Standards (ENs).

• BS implementations of ISO or IEC standards.

• Published documents (PDs).

• Corrigenda to British Standards. (Alteration and/or addition to a standard that corrects one or more errors or ambiguities introduced in either drafting or production.)

• Updated British Standards

• British standards reviewed and confirmed

• British standards proposed for withdrawal

• British standards withdrawn

• New standards work started

• Draft British standards for public comment - national British standards

• Draft British standards for public comment – Adoptions

• Documents not issued as drafts for public comment

• CEN European standards, CEN reports

• Cenelec publications

• IEC publications

• ISO publications

Update Standards really is the go-to-place to keep pace with the ever-changing world of standards. And if you ever want to look back at previous editions, BSI Members can find the archive of previous Update Standards magazines here.