Edition 2 of IEC 61508, an important functional safety standard, was published in 2010.  As many of you will know, international standards are subject to periodic revision, and the time has come to start the maintenance cycle for IEC 61508.  The IEC Secretariat has therefore asked for comments on the current standard to be submitted with a view to producing Edition 3 in due course.  Ron Pierce (IET representative on the relevant UK National Committee) will be collating all comments received from FS TPN members and submitting them via the BSI.  The Maintenance Teams for the standard (MT61508-1&2 and MT61508-3) are ready to get started on the revision process.

 

If you have any suggestions for corrections or improvements to IEC 61508 Edition 2, please send them to Ron Pierce using the IEC comment form (please ignore the fields in the header and the MB/NC column in the comment table). Since we only have about 6 weeks to submit comments to the IEC, please send your comments by 20th January 2017 to allow time for all UK comments to be collated and submitted. Ron's preferred email address is ron.pierce@ntlworld.com, alternatively ron.pierce@hitachi-infocon.com.

 

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