Joint Draft Standards
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DR AS/NZS ISO 3746:2019 (Committee EV-010)
Acoustics - Determination of sound power levels and sound energy levels of noise sources using sound pressure - Survey method using an enveloping measurement surface over a reflecting plane
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to specify methods for determining the sound power level or sound energy level of a noise source from sound pressure levels measured on a surface enveloping a noise source (machinery or equipment) in a test environment for which requirements are given. The sound power level (or, in the case of noise bursts or transient noise emission, the sound energy level) produced by the noise source with frequency A-weighting applied is calculated using those measurements. This standard is identical with, and has been reproduced from, ISO 3746:2010 Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels and sound energy levels of noise sources using sound pressure — Survey method using an enveloping measurement surface over a reflecting plane.
The public comment period for this draft is about to expire. Closing date for comments 26/03/2019.
DR AS/NZS 60079.13:2019v2 (Committee EL-014)
Explosive atmospheres - Part 13: Equipment protection by pressurized room "p" and artificially ventilated room "v"
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to provide requirements for the design, construction, assessment, verification and marking of rooms used to protect internal equipment by pressurization or artificial ventilation or both as applicable when located in an explosive gas atmosphere or combustible dust atmosphere hazardous area with or without an internal source of a flammable gas or vapour, as a means of protection for installations associated with explosive atmospheres. This standard also includes requirements related to safety devices and controls necessary to ensure that artificial ventilation, purging and pressurization is established and maintained. This standard does not specify the methods that may be required to ensure adequate air quality for personnel with regard to toxicity and temperature within the room. National or other regulations and requirements may exist to ensure the safety of personnel in this regard. Protection of rooms by using an inert gas or a flammable gas is outside of the scope of this standard. It is recognized that such applications are special cases, which in part may be addressed using the principles from AS/NZS 60079.2, but in all probability will also be the subject of additional, stringent engineering standards, procedures and practices. Pressurized enclosures for equipment that are not intended to facilitate the entry of personnel are addressed in AS/NZS 60079.2, and are not in the scope of this standard. This standard is an adoption with national modifications, and has been reproduced from, IEC 60079-13:2017 (ED. 2.0), Explosive atmospheres — Part 13: Equipment protection by pressurized room ‘p’ and artificially ventilated room ‘v’. The modifications are additional requirements and are set out in Appendix ZZ which has been added at the end of the source text.
Closing date for comments 16/04/2019
DR AS/NZS ISO 3747:2019 (Committee EV-010)
Acoustics —Determination of sound power levels and sound energy levels of noise sources using sound pressure — Engineering/survey methods for use in situ in a reverberant environment
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to specify a method for determining the sound power level or sound energy level of a noise source by comparing measured sound pressure levels emitted by a noise source (machinery or equipment) mounted in situ in a reverberant environment, with those from a calibrated reference sound source. The sound power level (or, in the case of noise bursts or transient noise emission, the sound energy level) produced by the noise source, in frequency bands of width one octave, is calculated using those measurements. The sound power level or sound energy level with frequency A-weighting applied is calculated using the octave-band levels. This standard is identical with, and has been reproduced from, ISO 3747:2010, Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels and sound energy levels of noise sources using sound pressure — Engineering/survey methods for use in situ in a reverberant environment.
The public comment period for this draft is about to expire. Closing date for comments 27/03/2019.
DR AS/NZS ISO 8124.1:2019 (Committee CS-018)
Safety of toys - Part 1: Safety aspects related to mechanical and physical properties
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to specify safety aspects related to the mechanical and physical properties that are generally applicable to toys for children up to the age of 14 years, taking into account normal use and reasonably foreseeable abuse. Other standards in this series provide specifications for additional mechanical and physical properties that apply to specific categories of toys (e.g. domestic activity toys) and for other properties of toys (e.g. flammability and migration of certain elements). Specifications for the electrical properties of toys are provided in AS/NZS 62115. This standard will be identical with, and will be reproduced from, ISO 8124‑1:2018 Safety of toys — Part 1: Safety aspects related to mechanical and physical properties.
Closing date for comments 09/04/2019
DR AS/NZS 4129:2019 (Committee PL-006)
Fittings for polyethylene (PE) pipes for pressure applications
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action This standard specifies requirements for fittings to be used with polyethylene pipe manufactured in accordance with AS/NZS 4130 or AS 2698.2 or POP 009. This standard is applicable to fittings manufactured for the conveyance of water, fuel gas, and other fluids including compressed air. This standard follows the classification structure for pipes adopted by ISO (Renard 10 and 20 Series) excepting for Class Rural Mechanical Compression fittings. This revision incorporates general updates to references and size range tables and includes of new requirements for flanges, fabricated fittings and mechanical fittings. The revision also includes updates to align more closely with recent publications of related ISO and EN Standards.
Closing date for comments 16/04/2019
DR AS/NZS 4024.1604:2019 (Committee SF-041)
Safety of machinery - Part 1604: Design of controls, interlocks and guarding - Emergency stop - Principles for design
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to specify functional requirements and design principles for the emergency stop function on machinery, independent of the type of energy used. This standard does not deal with functions such as reversal or limitation of motion, deflection of emissions (e.g. radiation, fluids), shielding, braking or disconnecting, which can be part of the emergency stop function.
Closing date for comments 22/04/2019
DR2 AS/NZS 5139:2019 (Committee EL-042)
Electrical installations — Safety of battery systems for use with power conversion equipment
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to provide manufacturers, system integrators, designers and installers of battery energy storage systems with the requirements for the safety and installation of battery systems connected to power conversion equipment for the supply of a.c. and/or d.c. power. The installation of grid-connected energy storage systems, which include batteries, is a relatively new and growing market, and one in which there is a lack of definitive standards. Existing standards for the design and installation of stationary battery systems were prepared for use with traditional lead-acid and nickel cadmium battery technology, and do not address recent production and application innovations and developments. These innovations include the following: (a) Newer battery technologies, including battery chemistry types other than lead-acid, such as lithium technologies (e.g. lithium ion, lithium iron phosphate), flow technologies (e.g. zinc bromine, vanadium redox flow), and hybrid ion technologies (e.g. aqueous). At this stage, this Standard does not cover high temperature batteries, such as NaNiCl batteries or sodium sulfur batteries. (b) New developments in interconnection equipment (e.g. multiple-mode inverters), which can result in batteries being continually connected to the grid, and also include photovoltaic (PV) or other energy sources as an integrated system. (c) Cheaper cost structures resulting in battery systems being utilized more widely and in many more applications, such as becoming more prevalent in domestic and residential electrical installations. This standard necessarily deals with existing types of energy storage, but is not intended to discourage innovation or to exclude materials, equipment and methods that may be developed in the future.
Closing date for comments 03/04/2019
DR AS/NZS ISO 3743.2:2019 (Committee EV-010)
Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels of noise sources using sound pressure — Engineering methods for small, movable sources in reverberant fields — Part 2: Methods for special reverberation test rooms
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to specify a relatively simple engineering method for determining the sound power levels of small, movable noise sources. The methods specified in this document are suitable for measurements of all types of noise within a specified frequency range, except impulsive noise consisting of isolated bursts of sound energy which are covered by AS/NZS ISO 3744 and AS/NZS ISO 3745. This standard is identical with, and has been reproduced from, ISO 3743‑2:2018, Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels of noise sources using sound pressure — Engineering methods for small, movable sources in reverberant fields — Part 2: Methods for special reverberation test rooms.
The public comment period for this draft is about to expire. Closing date for comments 27/03/2019.
DR AS/NZS ISO 19111:2019 (Committee IT-004)
Geographic information - Referencing by coordinates
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to define the conceptual schema for the description of referencing by coordinates. It describes the minimum data required to define coordinate reference systems. This document supports the definition of - (a) spatial coordinate reference systems where coordinate values do not change with time. The system may - (i) be geodetic and apply on a national or regional basis; or (ii) apply locally such as for a building or construction site; or (iii) apply locally to an image or image sensor; or (iv) be referenced to a moving platform such as a car, a ship, an aircraft or a spacecraft. Such a coordinate reference system can be related to a second coordinate reference system which is referenced to the Earth through a transformation that includes a time element; (b) spatial coordinate reference systems in which coordinate values of points on or near the surface of the earth change with time due to tectonic plate motion or other crustal deformation. Such dynamic systems include time evolution, however they remain spatial in nature; (c) parametric coordinate reference systems which use a non-spatial parameter that varies monotonically with height or depth; (d) temporal coordinate reference systems which use dateTime, temporal count or temporal measure quantities that vary monotonically with time; and (e) mixed spatial, parametric or temporal coordinate reference systems. This standard is identical with, and will be reproduced from, ISO 19111:2019 Geographic information — Referencing by coordinates.
Closing date for comments 11/04/2019
DR AS/NZS 4024.1302:2019 (Committee SF-041)
Safety of machinery — Reduction of risks to health resulting from hazardous substances emitted by machinery — Part 1: Principles and specifications for machinery manufacturers
Please note that when submitting comments on draft Joint standards, these must be submitted to Standards Australia. To do this, please use the following link— https://hub.standards.org.au/hub/public/listOpenCommentingPublication.action The objective of this standard is to establish principles for the control of risks to health resulting from hazardous substances emitted by machinery. This standard is not applicable to substances that are a hazard to health solely because of their explosive, flammable or radioactive properties or their behaviour at extremes of temperature or pressure. This standard is identical with, and will be reproduced from, ISO 14123‑1:2015 Safety of machinery — Reduction of risks to health resulting from hazardous substances emitted by machinery — Part 1: Principles and specifications for machinery manufacturers.
Closing date for comments 17/04/2019