SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006

• Abstract:

  The present document defines classes of environmental conditions and their severities to which telecommunication equipment may be exposed. The severities specified are those which will have a low probability of being exceeded; generally less than 1 %. The present document applies to equipment being transported from one place to another after being made ready for dispatch from the manufacturer's works. The most commonly used methods of transportation have been taken into account, i.e. ground, water and air transport. Loading and unloading as well as temporary storage, have been included. Where the equipment is packaged the environmental conditions apply to the packaged equipment. NOTE: Normal transportation time is considered to be 30 days or less. Where the total transportation time exceeds 30 days then additional storage or packaging precautions must be considered.

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 31-Jan-2006
• ICS: 19.040 - Environmental testing
• ICS: 33.050.01 - Telecommunication terminal equipment in general
• Technical Committee: SS EIT - Technical Board for the electrotechnical, information technology and telecommunications fields
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 01-Feb-2006
• Due Date: 01-Feb-2006
• Completion Date: 01-Feb-2006
• Ref Project: ETSI EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4 (2003-04) - Environmental Engineering (EE); Environmental conditions and environmental tests for telecommunications equipment; Part 1-2: Classification of environmental conditions; Transportation

SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006 is the Slovenian adoption of ETSI EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4 for telecommunications equipment. It specifies transport environmental classes and severities for equipment moved from the manufacturer's works, including ground, water and air transport, loading and unloading, temporary storage, and packaged equipment. It is aimed at people who need to classify transport conditions, choose packaging, or define environmental test expectations for telecom hardware.

What does SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006 specify?

SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006 defines the classes of environmental conditions and the severities that telecommunications equipment may face during transportation. The document organizes this into scope, references, definitions, environmental classes, environmental conditions, and a normative annex.

Annex	What it covers
Annex A	Summary of how classes 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 apply to climatic conditions in the areas defined in IEC 60721-2-1

The scope ties the classes to transport after dispatch, including loading, unloading and temporary storage. It also states that the conditions apply to packaged equipment when packaging is used.

What are the key requirements of SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006?

Clause 1 sets the basis for the whole document: the severities are those with a low probability of being exceeded, generally less than 1 %, and normal transportation time is 30 days or less. In practice, longer transport times mean that storage or packaging protection has to be considered separately.

Clause 4 defines three transport classes. Classes 2.1 and 2.2 are special classes for low temperature and careful handling, while class 2.3 is the normal transport class. That distinction matters because it tells a designer or buyer how severe the expected route is.

How the transport classes differ

• Clause 4.1, class 2.1 - Very careful transportation
  This class covers transport with special care, including heated, pressurised aircraft holds, limited climate exposure, and controlled handling. It excludes some harsher exposures, so it suits equipment with tighter transport limits.

• Clause 4.2, class 2.2 - Careful transportation
  This class includes everything in class 2.1 and adds all types of lorries and trailers on well-developed roads, plus ship and train transport with shock-reducing buffers. Manual loading and unloading up to 20 kg is included, which is useful when hand handling is expected.

• Clause 4.3, class 2.3 - Public transportation
  This class covers the conditions of classes 2.1 and 2.2 and adds a lower cold-temperature limit, rough handling, and transport in areas without well-developed roads. It is the broadest transport class and is the one to use when no special precautions are taken.

Clause 5 groups the environmental parameters into climatic, biological, chemically active, mechanically active, and mechanical conditions. In practice, this tells the reader what type of exposure has to be checked, specified, or tested.

Clause 5.1 covers the climatic parameters used for transport, including temperature, humidity, pressure, solar radiation, rain, wetness and movement of air. Clause 5.5 covers the mechanical stresses relevant to transport, such as vibration, shock, free fall, toppling, rolling, steady-state acceleration and static load. The tables and notes are there so users can match the transport route to the right severity.

Annex A links the transport classes to the open-air climate groupings in IEC 60721-2-1. That helps users decide which class fits the climate zone and location type involved in real transport.

What terms does SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006 define?

• Absolute humidity - The mass of water vapour associated with one cubic metre of dry air.
• Relative humidity - The ratio of water vapour pressure in moist air to the saturation pressure at the same temperature.
• Non-weatherprotected location - A location where equipment, packaged or unpackaged, is not protected from the environment.
• Weatherprotected location - A location where the equipment is protected from direct weather influences.
• Class 2.1 - A transport class for very careful transportation with special care for low temperature and handling.
• Class 2.2 - A transport class for careful transportation, covering class 2.1 plus more transport modes and controlled manual handling.
• Class 2.3 - A transport class for public transportation, where no special precautions have been taken.

Who uses SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006?

This standard is used by telecommunications equipment manufacturers, packaging and logistics engineers, test laboratories, and quality managers. It helps them classify transport exposure, decide whether equipment needs extra protection, and align environmental test expectations with the planned transport route.

Buyers and suppliers can also use it when they need a shared description of transport conditions for procurement, acceptance, or documentation. It is especially relevant when equipment may move by road, sea, air, or mixed transport before installation.

Which standards are used with SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006?

Reference	Contribution
ETSI ETR 035	Guidance and terminology for environmental engineering
IEC 60721-3-2	Classification of transportation environmental conditions used to build the transport classes
IEC 60721-2-1	Climatic conditions in nature, used by Annex A for climate-area mapping
IEC 60068-2-27	Shock test guidance and model shock response spectra
ETSI EN 300 019-2-2	Recommended test severities and test methods for transportation

The foreword also places this part within the ETSI EN 300 019 series, where Part 1 gives classification of environmental conditions and Part 2 gives the corresponding environmental tests.

What does the SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006 document contain?

SIST EN 300 019-1-2 V2.1.4:2006 contains descriptive tables for climatic, biological, chemical and mechanical exposures, along with notes that explain how to read them. It also includes a mechanical conditions table that covers vibration, shock, fall, toppling, rolling and load cases relevant to transport.

The document uses Annex A to summarize how the transport classes apply across climate groupings. That makes it practical for route selection, packaging design, and deciding which environmental test class to use later in the ETSI series.

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-februar-2006
Okoljski inženiring (EE) – Okoljski pogoji in preskusi vplivov okolja na
telekomunikacijsko opremo – 1-2. del: Klasifikacija okoljskih pogojev – Prevoz
Environmental Engineering (EE); Environmental conditions and environmental tests for
telecommunications equipment; Part 1-2: Classification of environmental conditions;
Transportation
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 300 019-1-2 Version 2.1.4
ICS:
19.040 Preskušanje v zvezi z Environmental testing
okoljem
33.050.01 Telekomunikacijska Telecommunication terminal
terminalska oprema na equipment in general
splošno
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

European Standard (Telecommunications series)

Environmental Engineering (EE);
Environmental conditions and environmental tests
for telecommunications equipment;
Part 1-2: Classification of environmental conditions;
Transportation
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Reference
REN/EE-01027-1-2[2]
Keywords
environment, testing, equipment practice
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights.4
Foreword.4
1 Scope.5
2 References.5
3 Definitions.5
4 Environmental classes.6
4.1 Class 2.1: Very careful transportation .6
4.2 Class 2.2: Careful transportation .6
4.3 Class 2.3: Public transportation.7
5 Environmental conditions.7
5.1 Climatic conditions.7
5.2 Biological conditions.8
5.3 Chemically active substances .8
5.4 Mechanically active substances.8
5.5 Mechanical conditions.9
Annex A (normative): Summary of applications of classes 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 applied to the climatic
conditions for different areas as defined in IEC 60721-2-1.10
History .11

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Foreword
This European Standard (Telecommunications series) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Environmental
Engineering (EE).
The present document is part 1, sub-part 2 of a multi-part deliverable covering the classification of environmental
conditions and environmental tests for telecommunications equipment, as identified below:
Part 1: "Classification of environmental conditions";
Sub-part 0: "Introduction";
Sub-part 1: "Storage";
Sub-part 2: "Transportation";
Sub-part 3: "Stationary use at weatherprotected locations";
Sub-part 4: "Stationary use at non-weatherprotected locations";
Sub-part 5: "Ground vehicle installations";
Sub-part 6: "Ship environments";
Sub-part 7: "Portable and non-stationary use";
Sub-part 8: "Stationary use at underground locations";
Part 2: "Specification of environmental tests".
Part 1 specifies different standardized environmental classes covering climatic and biological conditions, chemically
and mechanically active substances and mechanical conditions during storage, transportation and in use.
Part 1-0 forms a general overview of part 1.
Part 2 specifies the recommended test severities and test methods for the different environmental classes.

National transposition dates
Date of latest announcement of this EN (doa): 31 July 2003
Date of latest publication of new National Standard
or endorsement of this EN (dop/e): 31 January 2004
Date of withdrawal of any conflicting National Standard (dow): 31 January 2004

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1 Scope
The present document defines classes of environmental conditions and their severities to which telecommunication
equipment may be exposed. The severities specified are those which will have a low probability of being exceeded;
generally less than 1 %.
The present document applies to equipment being transported from one place to another after being made ready for
dispatch from the manufacturer's works. The most commonly used methods of transportation have been taken into
account, i.e. ground, water and air transport. Loading and unloading as well as temporary storage, have been included.
Where the equipment is packaged the environmental conditions apply to the packaged equipment.
NOTE: Normal transportation time is considered to be 30 days or less. Where the total transportation time
exceeds 30 days then additional storage or packaging precautions must be considered.
2 References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present
document.
• References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific.
• For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
• For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
[1] ETSI ETR 035: "Equipment Engineering (EE); Environmental engineering; Guidance and
terminology".
[2] IEC 60721-3-2: "Classification of environmental conditions - Part 3: Classification of groups of
environmental parameters and their severities - Section 2: Transportation".
[3] IEC 60721-2-1: "Classification of environmental conditions. Part 2: Environmental conditions
appearing in nature. Temperature and humidity".
[4] IEC 60068-2-27: "Environmental testing. Part 2: Tests. Test Ea and guidance: Shock".
[5] ETSI EN 300 019-2-2: "Equipment Engineering (EE); Environmental conditions and
environmental tests for telecommunications equipment; Part 2-2: Specification of environmental
tests; Transportation".
3 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the following terms and definitions apply:
absolute humidity: mass of water vapour in grammes which is associated with one cubic metre of dry air in an
air/water vapour mixture
non-weatherprotected location: equipment, packaged or unpackaged, is not protected in any way from the
environment
relative humidity: ratio of the partial pressure of the water vapour in moist air at a given temperature, to the partial
pressure of the water vapour in saturated air at the same temperature
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weatherprotected location: location at which the equipment is protected from direct weather influences
NOTE: Totally weatherprotected location: the equipment, packaged or unpackaged, is contained within an
enclosure which affords some protection from the environment, ranging from a temperature controlled
container to a waterproof cover placed over the equipment. Ventilation ranges from controlled air flow to
the raising of part of a waterproof cover to allow for natural air flow.
4 Environmental classes
Three different environmental classes have been defined. Classes 2.1 and 2.2 are special classes relating to low
temperature and less severe mechanical conditions. Class 2.3 is the normal class for transportation of equipment.
4.1 Class 2.1: Very careful transportation
Class 2.1 is a combination of classes 2K3/2B2/2C2/2S2/2M1 in IEC 60721-3-2 [2].
This class applies to transportation where special care has been taken e.g. with respect to low temperature and handling.
The conditions covered include transportation in unventilated
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