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IEC 60721-3-2:2018 RLV

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Current

The latest, up-to-date edition.

Classification of environmental conditions - Part 3-2: Classification of groups of environmental parameters and their severities - Transportation and handling

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF 1 User , PDF 3 Users , PDF 5 Users , PDF 9 Users

Language(s)

English

Published date

23-02-2018

$290.22
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Summarise this standard

FOREWORD
1 Scope and object
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General
5 Classification of groups of environmental
  parameters and their severities
Annex A (informative) - Chemically active substances
Bibliography

IEC 60721-3-2:2018 RLV contains both the official IEC International Standard and its Redline version. The Redline version is available in English only and provides you with a quick and easy way to compare all the changes between the official IEC Standard and its previous edition.

IEC 60721-3-2:2018 classifies the groups of environmental parameters and their severities to which a product is subjected while being transported and handled. The most commonly used methods of transportation and handling have been taken into account, including the following:
- road transport: cars, trucks;
- rail transport: trains, trams;
- water transport, inland and maritime: ships;
- air transport: aircraft, jet, propeller, helicopter;
- handling equipment: cranes, transport lifts, cableways, persons;
- conveyors;
- hand trollies.
This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition, published in 1997, and constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a. Clause 1: reworded and added handling.
b. Clause 2: updated normative references.
c. Clause 3: updated definitions.
d. Clause 4: reworded and simplified.
e. Clause 5: revised and updated. Several classes have been replaced by completely new classes based on the use of new information obtained from referenced Technical Reports.
f. Table 1 through Table 5: updated.
g. Table 6 added.
h. Old annexes A to C removed except Clause A.3 that is incorporated in Clause 5.
i. New Annex A.
The contents of the corrigenda of November 2018, June 2022 and May 2024 have been included in this copy.

Committee
TC 104
DevelopmentNote
Stability Date: 2027. (02/2018)
DocumentType
Redline
Pages
66
PublisherName
International Electrotechnical Committee
Status
Current
Supersedes

Standards Relationship
EN IEC 60721-3-2:2018 Identical
NEN-EN-IEC 60721-3-2:2018 Identical

$290.22
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