1.1.1 Equipment included in scope
This part of IEC 61010 specifies general safety requirements for the following types of
electrical equipment and their accessories, wherever they are intended to be used.
a) Electrical test and measurement equipment
This is equipment which by electromagnetic means tests, measures, indicates or records
one or more electrical or physical quantities, also non-measuring equipment such as
signal generators, measurement standards, power supplies for laboratory use,
transducers, transmitters, etc.
NOTE 1 This includes bench-top power supplies intended to aid a testing or measuring operation on another
piece of equipment. Power supplies intended to power equipment are within the scope of IEC 61558
(see 1.1.2 h)).
This standard also applies to test equipment integrated into manufacturing processes and
intended for testing manufactured devices.
NOTE 2 Manufacturing test equipment is likely to be installed adjacent to and interconnected with industrial
machinery in this application.
b) Electrical industrial process-control equipment
This is equipment which controls one or more output quantities to specific values, with
each value determined by manual setting, by local or remote programming, or by one or
more input variables.
c) Electrical laboratory equipment
This is equipment which measures, indicates, monitors, inspects or analyses materials, or
is used to prepare materials, and includes in vitro diagnostic (IVD) equipment.
This equipment may also be used in areas other than laboratories; examples include selftest
IVD equipment to be used in the home and inspection equipment to be used to check
people or material during transportation.
1.1.2 Equipment excluded from scope
This standard does not apply to equipment within the scope of:
a) IEC 60065 (Audio, video and similar electronic apparatus);
b) IEC 60204 (Safety of machinery – Electrical equipment of machines);
c) IEC 60335 (Household and similar electrical appliances);
d) IEC 60364 (Electrical installations of buildings);
e) IEC 60439 (Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies);
f) IEC 60601 (Medical electrical equipment);
g) IEC 60950 (Information technology equipment including electrical business equipment,
except as specified in 1.1.3);
h) IEC 61558 (Power transformers, power supply units and similar);
i) IEC 61010-031 (Hand-held probe assemblies);
j) IEC 61243-3 (Live working – Voltage detectors – Part 3: Two-pole low-voltage type).
BS EN 61010-1:2010 history
1970BS EN 61010-1:2010+A1:2019 Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use. General requirements
2010BS EN 61010-1:2010 Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use. General requirements
2001BS EN 61010-1:2001 Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory use - General requirements
1993BS EN 61010-1:1993 Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory use. General requirements