LIVE WORKING - PORTABLE EQUIPMENT FOR GROUNDING AND BONDING
This National Standard of Canada is applicable to portable equipment, with or without matching connection points, for temporary earthing or earthing and short-circuiting of electrically isolated or de-energized a.c. and d.c. installations, transmission and distribution networks, whether they are overhead or underground or of low or high voltage. This standard covers equipment comprising an…
SADDLES, POLE CLAMPS (STICK CLAMPS) AND ACCESSORIES FOR LIVE WORKING
"This National Standard of Canada is applicable to saddles and pole clamps (stick clamps) used for live working, and to their accessories.
This Standard specifies the dimensional and mechanical characteristics to be given by the manufacturer for each tool, the corresponding mechanical tests, and the other points to be checked (visual, functional, marking, etc.)"
Effective sterilization in health care facilities by the ethylene oxide process
Scope
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This Standard specifies essential elements in implementing a program for using ethylene oxide to sterilize medical devices in health care facilities, with the object of achieving an adequate level of sterility assurance and minimizing the risk of injury to health care facility personnel and patients.
Notes:
(1) The term "health care facility" includes, but is not limited to,…
Installation, ventilation, and safe use of ethylene oxide sterilizers in health care facilities
Scope
1.1
This Standard provides information to assist health care facilities in devising work practices that will maximize employee safety when using ethylene oxide sterilizers and ancillary equipment.
1.2
This Standard specifies requirements for the following:
(a) the installation of ethylene oxide sterilization equipment;
(b) general area and local exhaust ventilation;
(c) staff…
Washer-disinfectors - Part 1: General requirements, terms and definitions and tests
This National Standard of Canada is based on International Standard ISO 15883-1:2006.
1 Scope
This part of ISO 15883 specifies general performance requirements for washer-disinfectors (WD) and their accessories that are intended to be used for cleaning and disinfection of re-usable medical devices and other articles used in the context of medical, dental, pharmaceutical and veterinary practice…
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1.1 Scope
This Standard applies to the erection and use of access scaffold that is
(a) supported on a surface;
(b) hung from multiple points, but is not capable of moving vertically or horizontally; or
(c) mounted on wheels.
This Standard addresses key hazards, including fall hazards, structural instability, platform failures, and material handling problems.
Note: In this Standard…
Live working - Minimum requirements for the utilization of tools, devices and equipment
IEC 61477:2009 gives the minimum requirements relative to specification, manufacture, selection, application and maintenance of tools, devices and equipment for live working. It provides the type of information which is useful to skilled persons in order to make the use of tools, devices and equipment safer. This type of information includes:
- the characteristics of tools, devices and equipment…
IEC 62192:2009 covers insulating ropes that are utilized during live working procedures in contact with parts of installations operating at voltages up to and including 800 kV r.m.s. Insulating ropes for live working procedure under rain and/or d.c. conditions are not covered by this standard.
Rubber, vulcanized or thermoplastic — Determination of resistance to abrasion using a driven, vertic...
ISO 23233:2009 specifies a method for the determination of the resistance of rubber to abrasion using a driven, vertical abrasive disc (the LAT 100: Laboratory Abrasion Tester 100).
The loss in mass on abrasion is determined through the slip caused by setting different slip angles and rotational speeds between a wheel-shaped rubber test piece and an abrasive disc, rotating in planes at right…
Rubber and plastics hoses, non-collapsible, for fire-fighting service — Part 2: Semi-rigid hoses (an...
ISO 4642-2:2009 specifies the requirements and test methods for semi-rigid reel hoses for use on fire fighting vehicles and trailer pumps. The hoses are intended for use at a maximum working pressure of 1,5 MPa for normal pressure hoses (category I) and 4,0 MPa for high pressure hoses (category II). The hoses are further subdivided into types and classes.
ISO 4642-2:2009 applies to delivery hoses…