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Description / Abstract:
This standard provides minimum requirements for the
construction, performance, and testing of portable, transportable,
mobile, and stationary electrical apparatus whose purpose is for
the detection, measurement and notification of toxic gas in air
that are used to enhance the safety of personnel in commercial and
industrial locations.
NOTE 1 — Laboratory- or scientific-type analysis or process
control performance requirements are not part of this standard.
a) Residential locations are outside the scope of this
standard.
NOTE 2 — Performance requirements for detection of flammable
(explosive) concentrations of toxic gas(es) are not the purpose of
this standard.
NOTE 3 — The user should be aware of environmental effects on
both the apparatus and the toxic gas. The effects are not intended
to be evaluated by this standard.
Hereafter, the term "apparatus" will refer to "gas-detection
apparatus."