Updated 19 Oct 2012

Newsletters

The Product Safety Newsletter

The Newsletter was first published in March of 1985.  It included a Chairman's Message and Chapter Activity report.  Soon after the first edition, Rich Nute began writing the widely popular Technically Speaking column.  In 15 years of publication, it peaked at around 1100 copies, sent out every other month by mail, supported by institutional listings.  In November 1998, with a tiring staff and shortage of income from listings, it was decided to stop mailing hard copies and start a web-based publication.  In December, 1996, Roger Volgstadt, editor of the Newsletter started an email list server, “emc-pstc” for the benefit of the engineering community worldwide related to EMC and product safety.

Members of PSES have collected most of the newsletters from 1988 to 1998, converted them to PDF, and they are now available here on the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society's web site.  Enjoy!

The web-based version of the Product Safety Newsletter (new issues stopped in 2003) and were found on the EMC Society's TC-8 web site (this site is apparently no longer maintained by the EMCS).  The Product Safety Engineering Society's Newsletter and Journal pick up where the Product Safety Newsletter left off.

Product Safety Engineering Society Newsletter back issues

• September 2005, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1.9 MB)
  • Persuasion in Product Safety
  • Wheel Chair
  • Ground Bond Testing

• March 2006, Vol. 2, No. 1 (10.4 MB)
  • Power over Ethernet (PoE)
  • UL Standards Technical Panels
  • Symposium Report

• June 2006, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1.4 MB)
  • Meeting One Country's Standards
  • ANSI Z535.6
  • Overall Residual Risk

• September 2006, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1.9 MB)
  • Standardization
  • Back to Basics
  • The New 60601
     
• December 2006, Vol. 2, No. 4 (2.5 MB)
  • The Role of Warnings and Instructions
  • Symposium Report
  • Comparison of IEC 61000-4-3
     
• March 2007, Vol. 3, No. 1 (7.5 MB)
  • Technically Speaking - PSU Class 1 design
  • Defining and Designing for the Reasonable Person
     
• June 2007, Vol. 3, No. 2 (4.1 MB)
  • Technically Speaking - Safety Critical Components
  • Effect of Thin Solid Insulating Material
  • 2007 CSA/RIA Robot Safety Conference Report
     
• October 2007, Vol. 3, No. 3 (7.5 MB)
  • Technically Speaking - Principles of Thermally-caused Injury
  • PSEN Visits UL University
  • Changes to Bylaws

• December 2007, Vol. 3, No. 4 (5.9 MB)
  • Technically Speaking - Electric Shock and Electric Shock Safeguards In Digital Camera Flash Circuits
  • Safety Considerations for Liquid Filled Heat Sinks

• March 2008, Vol. 4, No. 1 (3.9 MB)
  • Monitoring the Integrity of the Safety Ground
  • Novelty Shock Pens - Harmless Toy or Injurious Weapon?

• June 2008, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1.1 MB)
  • Touch Current Measurement Comparison, Part 1
  • Electric Strength Test:  What Voltage Should Be Used?
     

• October 2008, Vol. 4, No. 3 (7.3 MB)

  • Insulation Coordination for High Frequencies
  • Touch Current Measurement Comparison
     

• December 2008, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1 MB)

  • Technically Speaking - Determining the R-C Discharge Time Constant for X- and Y-Capacitors
  • 2008 Symposium Report
     

• March 2009, Vol. 5, No. 1 (180 KB)

  • Technically Speaking -
  Testing Purposes
  • The Engineer's Role In Product Liability

• June 2009, Vol. 5, No. 2 (797 KB)

  • New Brazil Inmetro requirements
  • Staying Connected

• September 2009, Vol. 5, No. 3 (437 KB)

  • 2009 Symposium

• December 2009, Vol. 5, No. 4 (303 KB)

  • 2009 Symposium Review
     

• March 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1 (674 KB)

  • Evaluation of Fans
  • Ontario Electrical Safety Authority
     

• June 2010, Vol. 6, No. 2 (859 KB)

  • A New Approach to Product Safety
  • Medical Electrical Safety Under Attack
     

• October 2010, Vol. 6, No. 3 (4.8 MB)

  • Product Safety Management:  Its Time Has Come
  • Absence of Proof is not Proof of Absence
     

• December 2010, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1.9 MB)

  • Technically Speaking
  • Source Impedance as an Ignition Risk Factor
  • Background behind the "15W Rule"
     

• March 2011, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1.5 MB)

  • Risk Management and the Truth of Murphy's Law

• June 2011, Vol. 7, No. 2 (3.3 MB)

  • Product Safety Requirements in Argentina
  • Israel Chapter Symposium Report
     

• August 2011, Vol. 7, No. SE (1.8 MB)

  • 2011 Symposium preview
  • 2012 Symposium announcement