EN IEC 62822-1:2018

Electric welding equipment - Assessment of restrictions related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz) - Part 1: Product family standard

EN IEC 62822-1:2018

Name:EN IEC 62822-1:2018   Standard name:Electric welding equipment - Assessment of restrictions related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz) - Part 1: Product family standard
Standard number:EN IEC 62822-1:2018   language:English language
Release Date:27-Sep-2018   technical committee:CLC/TC 26 - Electric welding
Drafting committee:IEC/TC 26 - IEC_TC_26   ICS number:25.160 - Welding, brazing and soldering

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Assessment of electric welding equipment related to restrictions of human exposure to
electromagnetic fields (0 Hz - 300 GHz) - Part 1: Product family standard (IEC 62822-
1:2016)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 62822-1:2018
ICS:
17.220.01 Elektrika. Magnetizem. Electricity. Magnetism.
Splošni vidiki General aspects
25.160.30 Varilna oprema Welding equipment
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 62822-1

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
September 2018
ICS 25.160; 25.160.30 Supersedes EN 50445:2008
English Version
Electric welding equipment - Assessment of restrictions related
to human exposure to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz) -
Part 1: Product family standard
(IEC 62822-1:2016 , modified)
Matériels de soudage électrique - Évaluation des Bewertung elektrischer Schweißeinrichtungen in Bezug auf
restrictions relatives à l'exposition humaine aux champs Begrenzungen der Exposition von Personen gegenüber
électromagnétiques (0 Hz à 300 GHz) - Partie 1: Norme de elektromagnetischen Feldern (0 Hz bis 300 GHz) - Teil 1:
famille de produits Produktfamiliennorm
(IEC 62822-1:2016 , modifiée) (IEC 62822-1:2016 , modifiziert)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2016-03-21. 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.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2018 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Ref. No. EN IEC 62822-1:2018 E

European foreword
The text of document 26/583/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 62822-1, prepared by IEC/TC 26 "Electric
welding" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2019-06-28
level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2021-09-28
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 50445:2008.
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.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62822-1:2016 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following note has to be added for the standard indicated:
IEC 62822-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 62822-2.

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.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60050-851 2008 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - - -
Part 851: Electric welding
IEC 60974-1 -  Arc welding equipment -- Part 1: Welding EN 60974-1 -
power sources
IEC 60974-2 -  Arc welding equipment -- Part 2: Liquid EN 60974-2 -
cooling systems
IEC 60974-5 -  Arc welding equipment -- Part 5: Wire EN 60974-5 -
feeders
IEC 60974-6 -  Arc welding equipment -- Part 6: Limited EN 60974-6 -
duty equipment
IEC 60974-8 -  Arc welding equipment -- Part 8: Gas EN 60974-8 -
consoles for welding and plasma cutting
systems
IEC 62135-1 -  Resistance welding equipment -- Part 1: - -
Safety requirements for design,
manufacture and installation
IEC 62311 -  Assessment of electronic and electrical EN 62311 -
equipment related to human exposure
restrictions for electromagnetic fields (0 Hz
- 300 GHz)
IEC 62822-2 -  Electric welding equipment - Assessment EN 62822-2 -
of restrictions related to human exposure
to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz)
- Part 2: Arc welding equipment

IEC 62822-1
Edition 1.0 2016-03
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Electric welding equipment – Assessment of restrictions related to human

exposure to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz) –

Part 1: Product family standard

Matériels de soudage électrique – Évaluation des restrictions relatives à

l'exposition humaine aux champs électromagnétiques (0 Hz à 300 GHz) –

Partie 1: Norme de famille de produits

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 25.160; 25.160.30 ISBN 978-2-8322-3269-9

– 2 – IEC 62822-1:2016 © IEC 2016
CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references. 6
3 Terms and definitions . 7
4 Requirements . 8
4.1 General . 8
4.2 Non-thermal effects due to magnetic fields . 9
4.2.1 Limits for equipment used by laymen . 9
4.2.2 Limits for occupational use by professionals . 9
4.3 Non-thermal effects due to electric fields . 9
4.4 Contact currents . 9
4.5 Non-thermal effects of output current ripple . 9
4.6 Thermal effects . 10
5 Assessment methods . 10
5.1 General . 10
5.2 Time averaging . 11
5.3 Spatial averaging . 11
5.4 Assessment of equipment with pulsed or non-sinusoidal welding current . 11
5.5 Uncertainty of assessment . 11
5.5.1 Using uncertainty for comparison with permissible values . 11
5.5.2 Permissible expanded uncertainties . 12
6 Assessment conditions . 12
6.1 Assessment configurations . 12
6.2 Welding current conditions . 13
6.2.1 General . 13
6.2.2 Single operating mode . 13
6.2.3 Multiple operating modes . 13
6.2.4 Worst case condition . 13
7 Instructions and marking . 14
7.1 Product documentation requirements . 14
7.1.1 Information on product classification . 14
7.1.2 Information on the applied limits . 14
7.1.3 Information on exposure indices . 14
7.1.4 Information on distances . 14
7.1.5 Information on exceeding reference levels . 14
7.1.6 Information on exceeding sensory effect limits . 15
7.1.7 Exposure of persons wearing cardiac pacemakers or other medical
implants . 15
7.1.8 Projectile risk . 15
7.1.9 General information . 15
7.2 Product marking requirements . 15
Annex A (informative) EU legislation . 16
A.1 Restrictions for occupational exposure. 16
A.1.1 General . 16
A.1.2 Basic restrictions . 16
A.1.3 Reference levels . 17

IEC 62822-1:2016 © IEC 2016 – 3 –
A.2 Restrictions for general public exposure . 17
A.2.1 General . 17
A.2.2 Basic restrictions . 17
A.2.3 Reference levels . 18
A.3 Non-sinusoidal or pulsed fields . 19
Annex B (informative) ICNIRP guidelines . 20
B.1 Restrictions for occupational exposure. 20
B.1.1 General . 20
B.1.2 Basic restrictions . 20
B.1.3 Reference levels . 21
B.2 Restrictions for general public exposure . 21
B.2.1 General . 21
B.2.2 Basic restrictions . 21
B.2.3 Reference levels .
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