SIST EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020

Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory use - Part 2-081: Particular requirements for automatic and semi-automatic laboratory equipment for analysis and other purposes

EN-IEC 61010-2-081 applies to automatic and semi-automatic laboratory equipment for analysis and other purposes. Automatic and semi-automatic laboratory equipment consists of instruments or systems for measuring or modifying one or more characteristics or parameters of samples, performing the complete process or parts of the process without manual intervention. Equipment forming part of such a system is within the scope of this document. Examples of equipment within the scope of this document include: -analytical equipment; - automatic sampler (pipettor, aliquoter); - equipment for sample replication and amplification.

Sicherheitsbestimmungen für elektrische Mess-, Steuer-, Regel- und Laborgeräte - Teil 2-081: Besondere Anforderungen an automatische und semiautomatische Laborgeräte für Analysen und andere Zwecke

Règles de sécurité pour appareils électriques de mesurage, de régulation et de laboratoire - Partie 2-081: Exigences particulières pour les appareils de laboratoire, automatiques et semi-automatiques, destinés à l’analyse et autres usages

L'article de la Partie 1 est applicable à l'exception de ce qui suit:
1.1.1 Appareils inclus dans le domaine d'application
Remplacement:
Remplacer le texte, excepté le premier alinéa, par le nouveau texte suivant:
La présente partie de l'IEC 61010 s'applique aux appareils de laboratoire, automatiques et semi-automatiques, destinés à l'analyse et à d'autres usages.
Les appareils de laboratoire automatiques et semi-automatiques comprennent les instruments ou systèmes utilisés pour mesurer ou modifier un ou plusieurs paramètres ou caractéristiques d'échantillons, réalisant tout ou partie du processus sans intervention manuelle. Les appareils faisant partie d'un tel système sont couverts par le domaine d'application du présent document.
Exemples d'appareils entrant dans le domaine d'application du présent document:
- appareils réalisant des analyses;
- échantillonneurs automatiques (pipeteur, aliquoteur);
- appareils réalisant la réplication ou l'amplification d'échantillon.
NOTE 1 En ce qui concerne les appareils réalisant des analyses, le processus complet comprend habituellement les phases suivantes:
- prélèvement d'une quantité déterminée de l'échantillon;
- préparation de l'échantillon par des moyens chimiques, thermiques, mécaniques ou autres;
- mesurage;
- affichage, transmission ou impression des résultats de mesure.
NOTE 2 Si l'appareil dans sa totalité ou certains de ses sous-ensembles relèvent du domaine d'application d'une ou de plusieurs autres Parties 2 de l'IEC 61010 ainsi que du domaine d'application du présent document, ces autres Parties 2 sont également prises en considération.
1.1.2 Appareils exclus du domaine d'application
Addition:
Ajouter le nouveau point suivant:
aa) IEC 61010-2-101 (appareils de diagnostic in vitro, DIV).

Varnostne zahteve za električno opremo za meritve, nadzor in laboratorijsko uporabo - 2-081. del: Posebne zahteve za avtomatsko in polavtomatsko laboratorijsko opremo, ki se uporablja za analizo in druge namene

General Information

• Status: Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 30-Mar-2018
• Publication Date: 09-Jun-2020
• ICS: 19.080 - Electrical and electronic testing
• ICS: 71.040.10 - Chemical laboratories. Laboratory equipment
• Technical Committee: MOV - Measuring equipment for electromagnetic quantities
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 28-May-2020
• Due Date: 02-Aug-2020
• Completion Date: 10-Jun-2020
• Directive: 2014/35/EU - Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
• Directive: 2014/53/EU - Directive 2014/53/EU of The European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC
• Mandate: M/511 - Mandate to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI relating to harmonised standards in the field of the Low Voltage Directive
• Ref Project: EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020 - Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory use - Part 2-081: Particular requirements for automatic and semi-automatic laboratory equipment for analysis and other purposes

Relations

• Replaces: SIST EN 61010-2-081:2015 - Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory use - Part 2-081: Particular requirements for automatic and semi-automatic laboratory equipment for analysis and other purposes (IEC 61010-2-081:2015)
• Effective Date: 26-May-2020

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020
01-julij-2020
Nadomešča:
SIST EN 61010-2-081:2015
Varnostne zahteve za električno opremo za meritve, nadzor in laboratorijsko
uporabo - 2-081. del: Posebne zahteve za avtomatsko in polavtomatsko
laboratorijsko opremo, ki se uporablja za analizo in druge namene
Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory
use - Part 2-081: Particular requirements for automatic and semi-automatic laboratory
equipment for analysis and other purposes
Sicherheitsbestimmungen für elektrische Mess-, Steuer-, Regel- und Laborgeräte - Teil 2
-081: Besondere Anforderungen an automatische und semiautomatische Laborgeräte für
Analysen und andere Zwecke
Règles de sécurité pour appareils électriques de mesurage, de régulation et de
laboratoire - Partie 2-081: Exigences particulières pour les appareils de laboratoire,
automatiques et semi-automatiques, destinés à l’analyse et autres usages
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020
ICS:
19.080 Električno in elektronsko Electrical and electronic
preskušanje testing
71.040.10 Kemijski laboratoriji. Chemical laboratories.
Laboratorijska oprema Laboratory equipment
SIST EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 61010-2-081

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
May 2020
ICS 19.080; 71.040.10 Supersedes EN 61010-2-081:2015 and all of its
amendments and corrigenda (if any)
English Version
Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement,
control and laboratory use - Part 2-081: Particular requirements
for automatic and semi-automatic laboratory equipment for
analysis and other purposes
(IEC 61010-2-081:2019)
Exigences de sécurité pour appareils électriques de Sicherheitsbestimmungen für elektrische Mess-, Steuer-,
mesurage, de régulation et de laboratoire - Partie 2-081: Regel- und Laborgeräte - Teil 2-081: Besondere
Exigences particulières pour les appareils de laboratoire, Anforderungen für automatische und semiautomatische
automatiques et semi-automatiques, destinés à l'analyse et Laborgeräte für Analysen und andere Zwecke
à d'autres usages (IEC 61010-2-081:2019)
(IEC 61010-2-081:2019)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2019-03-19. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
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Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.


European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
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© 2020 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020 (E)
European foreword
This document (EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020) consists of the text of IEC 61010-2-081:2019 prepared by
IEC/TC 66 "Safety of measuring, control and laboratory equipment".
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2020-11-22
level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2023-05-22
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 61010-2-081:2015 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).
EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020 includes the following significant technical changes with respect to
EN 61010-2-081:2015:
a) adaptation of changes introduced by Amendment 1 of IEC 61010-1;
b) added tolerance for stability of a.c. voltage test equipment to Clause 6.
NOTE This document is based on EN 61010-1:2010 and its amendment, EN 61010-1:2010/A1:2019.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CENELEC by the European
Commission and the European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU
Directive(s).
For the relationship with EU Directive(s) see informative Annex ZZ, which is an integral part of this
document.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61010-2-081:2019 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards
indicated:
IEC 61010-2-101 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61010-2-101
IEC 62061 NOTE Harmonized as EN 62061
ISO 13849 (series) NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 13849 (series)


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EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020 (E)
Annex ZA
(normative)

Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1  Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2  Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Annex ZA of EN 61010-1:2010/A1:2019 is applicable with the following additions:
Publication Year Title EN/HD and IEC/ISO Year

2005
IEC 62061 Safety of machinery – Functional safety of EN 62061
2005
2010
+ Cor1 safety-related electrical, electronic and
2010
+ Cor2 2010 programmable electronic control systems
2010
+ A1
2012
2013
+ A2
2015
2015
ISO 13849-1 2015 Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of EN ISO 13849-1 2015
control systems - Part 1: General principles
for design
ISO 13849-2 2012 Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of EN ISO 13849-2 2012
control systems - Part 2: Validation



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EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020 (E)
Annex ZZ
(informative)

Relationship between this European standard and the safety objectives of
Directive 2014/35/EU [2014 OJ L96] aimed to be covered
This European Standard has been prepared under a Commission’s standardization request relating to
harmonized standards in the field of the Low Voltage Directive, M/511, to provide one voluntary means
of conforming to safety objectives of Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States relating to the
making available on the market of electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
[2014 OJ L96].
Once this standard is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union under that Directive,
compliance with the normative clauses of this standard given in Table ZZ.1 confers, within the limits of
the scope of this standard, a presumption of conformity with the corresponding safety objectives of
that Directive, and associated EFTA regulations.
Table ZZ.1 – Correspondence between this European standard and Annex I of Directive
2014/35/EU [2014 OJ L96]
Clause(s) / sub-
Safety objectives of Directive
clause(s)
Remarks / Notes
2014/35/EU (Annex I)
of this EN
1. General conditions
5.1
1 (a) the essential characteristics, the
5.2
recognition and observance of which will
5.3
ensure that electrical equipment will be
5.4
used safely and in applications for which it
was made, shall be marked on the
electrical equipment, or, if this is not
possible, on an accompanying document
5.4
1 (b) the electrical equipment, together
6.6
with its component parts, shall be made in
6.10
such a way as to ensure that it can be
6.11
safely and properly assembled and
Annex F
connected
5.4
1 (c) the electrical equipment shall be so
Annex F
designed and manufactured as to ensure
17 (for
that protection against the hazards set out
hazards not
in points 2 and 3 is assured, providing that
covered by
the equipment is used in applications for
clauses 6-16)
which it was made and is adequately
See also the
maintained
details in
points 2 and 3
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EN IEC 61010-2-081:2020 (E)
Clause(s) / sub-
Safety objectives of Directive
clause(s)
Remarks / Notes
2014/35/EU (Annex I)
of this EN
2. Protection against hazards arising from the electrical equipment
Measures of a technical nature shall be laid down in accordance with point 1, in order to ensure that:
4, 6.1 – 6.11,
2 (a) persons and domestic animals are
9.6, 11.6, 14.4
adequately protected against the danger
Annex D
of physical injury or other harm which
Annex F,
might be caused by direct or indirect
Annex K
contact
4, 4.4.4.2,
2 (b) temperatures, arcs or radiation which
6.3.1.b) 2),
would cause a danger, are not produced
6.3.2 b) 2),
9.5, 9.6, 10.1 -
10.5, 12
4, 4.4, 7.2-
2 (c) persons, domestic animals and
7.7, 9, 12.3,
property are adequately protected against
12.5, 12.6,
non-electrical dangers caused by the
13.1, 13.2,
electrical equipment which are revealed
13.101, 16.2
by experience
4, 6.7,
2 (d) the insulation is suitable for
Annex K
foreseeable conditions
3. Protection against hazards which may be caused by external influences on the electrical
equipment
Technical measures shall be laid down in accordance with point 1, in order to ensure that the electrical
equipment:
4, 7, 8
3 (a) meets the expected mechanical
requirements in such a way that persons,
domestic animals and property are not
endangered
1.4, 4,
3 (b) is resistant to non-mechanical
6.7.2.2.1,
influences in expected environmental
10.5, 11.6,
conditions, in such a way that persons,
14.3, 14.8, 15
domestic animals and property are not
endangered
4, 9, 14, 16.1
3 (c) does not endanger persons,
domestic animals and property in
foreseeable conditions of overload

WARNING 1 — Presumption of conformity stays valid only as long as a reference to this European
standard is maintained in the list published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Users of this
standard should consult frequently the latest list published in the Official Journal of the European
Union.
WARNING 2 — Other Union legislation may be applicable to the product(s) falling within the scope of
this standard.


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Safety requirements for electrical equipment for

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
1 Scope and object . 5
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Tests . 6
5 Marking and documentation . 6
6 Protection against electric shock . 8
7 Protection against mechanical HAZARDS . 8
8 Resistance to mechanical stresses . 8
9 Protection against the spread of fire . 9
10 Equipment temperature limits and resistance to heat . 9
11 Protection against HAZARDS from fluids and solid foreign objects . 9
12 Protection against radiation, including laser sources, and against sonic and
ultrasonic pressure . 9
13 Protection against liberated gases and substances, explosion and implosion . 9
14 Components and subassemblies . 9
15 Protection by interlocks . 9
16 HAZARDS resulting from application . 10
17 RISK assessment . 10
Annexes . 10
Bibliography . 11

Table 1 – Symbols . 6

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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
oSIST prEN 61010-2-081:2018
01-marec-2018
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Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory
use - Part 2-081: Particular requirements for automatic and semi-automatic laboratory
equipment for analysis and other purposes
Sicherheitsbestimmungen für elektrische Mess-, Steuer-, Regel- und Laborgeräte - Teil 2
-081: Besondere Anforderungen an automatische und semiautomatische Laborgeräte für
Analysen und andere Zwecke
Règles de sécurité pour appareils électriques de mesurage, de régulation et de
laboratoire - Partie 2-081: Exigences particulières pour les appareils de laboratoire,
automatiques et semi-automatiques, destinés à l’analyse et autres usages
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 61010-2-081:2018
ICS:
19.080 (OHNWULþQRLQHOHNWURQVNR Electrical and electronic
SUHVNXãDQMH testing
71.040.10 Kemijski laboratoriji. Chemical laboratories.
Laboratorijska oprema Laboratory equipment
oSIST prEN 61010-2-081:2018 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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After the decision not to withdraw the publication it will be revised to incorporate the changes brought
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1 CONTENTS
2 FOREWORD . 4
3 1 Scope and object . 7
4 2 Normative references . 8
5 3 Terms and definitions . 8
6 4 Tests . 8
7 5 Marking and documentation . 8
8 6 Protection against electric shock . 10
9 7 Protection against mechanical HAZARDS . 10
10 8 Resistance to mechanical stresses . 10
11 9 Protection against the spread of fire . 10
12 10 Equipment temperature limits and resistance to heat . 11
13 11 Protection against hazards from fluids . 11
14 12 Protection against radiation, including laser sources, and against sonic and
15 ultrasonic pressure . 11
16 13 Protection against liberated gases and substances, explosion and implosion . 11
17 14 Components and subassemblies . 11
18 15 Protection by interlocks . 11
19 16 HAZARDS resulting from application . 12
20 17 RISK assessment . 12
21 Annexes . 12
22 Bibliography . 12
23
24 Table 1 – Symbols . 8
25
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30 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FOR
31 MEASUREMENT, CONTROL, AND LABORATORY USE –
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33 Part 2-081: Particular requirements for automatic and
34 semi-automatic laboratory equipment for analysis and other purposes
35
36 FOREWORD
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76 well as a few editorial changes:
77 • adaptation of changes introduced by Amendment 1 of IEC 61010-1;
78 • added tolerance for stability of a.c. voltage test equipment to Clause 6.
79 The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting

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oSIST prEN 61010-2-081:2018
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81 Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on
82 voting indicated in the above table.
83 This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
84 A list of all parts of the IEC 61010 series, under the general title: Safety requirements for
85 electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory us
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