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DR AS/NZS 2081:2026 Electrical protection devices for mines and quarries
(a) The maintenance of touch and step voltage levels against time within acceptable limits.
NOTE AS/NZS 5368 specifies the applicable prospective touch voltage versus operating time characteristics for both low voltage and high voltage applications.
(b) The minimization of risks associated with electrical arcing, i.e. arc blast, and arc flash.
(c) Reliable performance under predetermined operating conditions.
This edition of the document differs from the previous editions in the following significant ways:
(i) All information relating to the selection and application of the equipment has been removed, except where it is necessary to inform the manufacturer of the equipment covered by this document. Much of this information is now included in AS/NZS 5368.
(ii) Prospective touch voltage versus operating time characteristics have been removed and reference made to AS/NZS 5368, which specifies the relevant characteristics for both low-voltage and high-voltage applications.
(iii) Prescriptive requirements for the rating of the output relay of protection devices have been removed and replaced with a requirement for the manufacturer to provide appropriate information to allow the device to be used without exceeding the rating of the output relay.
(iv) The labelling requirements have been revised so that certain information no longer needs to be visible when the protection device is mounted in its service position.
(v) The rated voltage is now defined for both equipment connected to phase conductors and neutral conductors, along with the applicable insulation levels and tests.
(vi) Section 3 now makes specific reference to resistive devices and no longer implies that reactors are a practical alternative.
(vii) Zero sequence reactors have been removed from this document.
(viii) The allowable operating values of earth-continuity protection devices have been amended, and additional modes of operation have been introduced.
(ix) Allowance has been made for earth fault protection devices to use either current or voltage sensing.
(x) Prescriptive requirements for the operating value of earth fault protection devices have been removed.
(xi) Allowance has been made for earth fault protection devices to measure a range of frequencies other than the fundamental frequency. The protection device may attenuate the measured signal based on frequency before it is used to initiate tripping.
Closing date for comments 21/4/2026
DR AS/NZS CISPR 12:2026 Vehicles, boats and devices with internal combustion engines or traction batteries – Radio disturbance characteristics – Limits and methods of measurement for the protection of off-board receivers (CISPR 12:2025 (ED 7.0) MOD)
(a) vehicles propelled by an internal combustion engine (ICE), electrical means or both (see 3.1.34);
(b) boats propelled by an ICE, electrical means or both (see 3.1.4). Boats are tested in the same manner as vehicles except where they have unique characteristics as explicitly stated in this document;
(c) devices equipped with ICE (see 3.1.9). In the case of hybrid devices (e.g. equipped with both ICE and traction batteries), only the ICE mode is included in this document; and
(d) inboard and outboard boat engines and motors [i.e. equipped with ICE, electric motor (EM), or both], when marketed independently.
Closing date for comments 15/4/2026
DR AS/NZS CISPR 16.1.2:2015 Amd 1:2026 Specification for radio disturbance and immunity measuring apparatus and methods, Part 1.2: Radio disturbance and immunity measuring apparatus - Coupling devices for conducted disturbance measurements
(a) Front cover
(b) Preface
(c) Amendment 1 (New)
Closing date for comments 15/4/2026
DR AS/NZS CISPR 16.1.4:2026 Specification for radio disturbance and immunity measuring apparatus and methods, Part 1.4: Radio disturbance and immunity measuring apparatus - Antennas and test sites for radiated disturbance measurements (CISPR 16-1-4:2025 (ED 5.0) MOD)
Closing date for comments 15/4/2026
DR AS/NZS CISPR 16.1.5:2015 Amd 1:2026 Specification for radio disturbance and immunity measuring apparatus and methods, Part 1.5: Radio disturbance and immunity measuring apparatus - Antenna calibration sites and reference test sites for 5 MHz to 18 GHz
(a) Front cover
(b) Preface
(c) Amendment 1 (New)
Closing date for comments 15/4/2026
DR AS/NZS ISO 19177.1:2026 Geographic information — Geospatial application programming interface (API) for tiles, Part 1: Core
This document describes how to —
(a) discover which resources offered by the web API can be retrieved as tiles;
(b) get metadata about the available tile sets (including according to which tile matrix set each tile set is partitioned and the limits of that tile set within a common potentially global tile matrix set);
(c) request a tile.
Closing date for comments 22/4/2026
DR AS/NZS ISO 9809.4:2026 Gas cylinders — Design, construction and testing of refillable seamless steel gas cylinders and tubes, Part 4: Stainless steel cylinders with an R m value of less than 1 100 MPa
It is applicable to cylinders for compressed, liquefied and dissolved gases with a maximum actual tensile strength, Rma, of less than 1 100 MPa.
NOTE If so desired, cylinders of water capacity between 150 l and 450 l can be manufactured to be in full conformance to this document.
Closing date for comments 20/4/2026
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