BS EN 62430:2009 Environmentally conscious design for electrical and electronic products
The goal of environmentally conscious design (ECD) is the reduction of adverse environmental impacts of a product throughout its entire life cycle. Environmentally conscious design is not a separate design activity; rather, it is an integral part of the existing design process.
BS EN 62430 specifies requirements and procedures to integrate environmental aspects into the design and development processes of electrical and electronic products. It provides a set of requirements for the process of ECD reflecting the contents of IEC Guide 114 and ISO/TR 14062.
BS EN 62430 is intended for use by all those who design or develop electrical and electronic products. This includes all parties in the supply chain, regardless of organization type, size, location and complexity.
BS EN 62430 is applicable to all types of electrotechnical products, new as well as modified. This includes combinations of products, and the materials and components of which they are composed.
The existence of this standard does not preclude particular sectors from generating their own, more specific, standards or guidelines. However, the use of BS EN 62430 as a base reference is encouraged so as to ensure consistency throughout the electrotechnical sector.
BS EN 62430 covers such topics as:
- Terms and definitions
- Fundamentals of ECD
- General
- Life cycle thinking
- Regulatory and stakeholders’ requirements
- Integration into management system
- ECD process
- General
- Analysis of regulatory and stakeholders’ environmental requirements
- Identification and evaluation of environmental aspects and corresponding impacts
- Design and development
- Review and continual improvement
- Information sharing for ECD.
A series of annexes in the standard provide greater detail of these topics.
