IS 11000 : Part 3 : Sec 1 : 1993/IEC 695-3-1 : 1982 Fire hazard testing: Part 3 Examples of fire hazard assessment procedures and interpretaton of results, Sec 1 Combustion characteristics and survey of test methods for their determination

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard, which is identical with IEC Pub 695-3-1 ( 1982 ) ‘Fire hazard testing - Part 3 Examples of fire hazard assessment procedures and interpretation of results, combustion characteristics and survey of test methods for their determination’, issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Environmental Testing Procedures Sectional Committee ( LTD 02 ) and approval of the Electronics and Telecommunication Division Council.

The text of the IEC standard has been approved as suitable for publication as Indian Standard wi;hout deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following :

Wherever the words, International Standard’ appear, referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

The concerned technical committee has reviewed the provisions of IEC 92-101, IEC 249-1, IEC 79-4, IEC 707, IEC 754-1, IS0 181, JSO 871, IS0 1182, Is0 1210-2, IS0 1326, HO 1716, IS0 3582 and IS0 3795, referred in this standard and has decided that they are acceptable for use in conjunction with this standard.

Part 1 of this Indian Standard deals with guidance for assessing fir hazards of electrotechnical products. The subsequent parts are intended to deal with the following:

a) Test methods,

b) Examples of test procedures and interpretation of results,

c) Terminology, and

d) Survey of test methods.

Only the English language text in the International Standard has been retained while adopting it in this Indian Standard.