Standards, fire issues flammability

Most on-line analyzers are installed as permanent fixtures. Bearing this in mind, environmental issues associated with temperature and vibration become more critical, and the requirement for conformance to safety standards may be enforced by the need for system certification. The latter requires an assessment of the working environment, and the potential for fire and/or explosion hazard, relative to the anticipated presence of flammable vapors or gases. Safety hazard and local electrical design code compliance, which includes CE Mark for Europe, Canadian Standards Association (CSA) for Canada,... 

In 1974, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a consent order that resulted in the withdrawal of ASTM D 1692. The order was motivated by the fact that some ASTM flammability test standards used terms such as nonburning and self-extinguishing to label materials that perform well in the test. The Commission determined that these terms give the public a false sense of confidence in the actual fire performance of these materials. ASTM subsequently drafted a policy to... 

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