Joint draft standards

We are consulting on 37 Australian/New Zealand adoptions of IEC standards and amendments and one revision of an existing joint AS/NZS standard. The proposed AS/NZS standards were prepared by Joint Technical Committee EL-002 Safety of household and similar electrical appliances and small power transformers and power supplies.
– Australia and New Zealand have input via EL-002 throughout the development process of the relevant ‘parent standards’ at IEC level. This ensures the health and safety of citizens in both countries.
– Maintaining pace with the latest international best practices and requirements will reduce the risks to the public and workers using electrical appliances.
– The proposed adoptions of relevant IEC publications for electrical appliances are either identical adoptions or modified adoptions which include Australian and New Zealand national variations.
– For the revision of AS/NZS 3160:2009, we are seeking public comments on whether this standard is still required for equipment not covered by AS/NZS 62841 series. If the standard is no longer needed, the new edition of AS/NZS 3160 will not be published.

We are consulting on a draft joint Australian/New Zealand standard, AS/NZS 62841.2.22:202X Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery – Safety – Part 2.22: Particular requirements for hand-held cut-off machines.

The proposed standard was prepared by Australian/New Zealand Joint Technical Committee EL-002 Safety of household and similar electrical appliances and small power transformers and power supplies. 

– Australia and New Zealand have input via EL-002 throughout the development process of the relevant ‘parent standards’ at IEC level. This ensures the health and safety of citizens in both countries. 
– Maintaining pace with the latest international best practices and requirements will reduce the risks to the public and workers using electrical appliances.
– The proposed standard is an identical adoption of IEC 62841-2-2, Ed.1.0:2025.

The objective of this document is to specify requirements for packaged sterile rubber gloves intended for use in surgical procedures to protect the patient and the user from cross-contamination.

This document is an adoption with national modifications and has been reproduced from ISO 10282:2023, Single-use sterile rubber surgical gloves — Specification. The modifications are set out in national variations boxes which give instructions where the ISO text is to be modified for use in Australia. Due to ISO copyright policy it is not possible to directly modify the ISO content.

The secretariat of this committee is managed by Standards Australia. Please see the attached document on how to access public comment drafts and submitting comments via the Standards Australia Public Commenting Portal, Connect.

The objective of this document is to specify requirements for packaged sterile, or bulked non-sterile, rubber gloves intended for use in medical examinations and diagnostic or therapeutic procedures to protect the patient and the user from cross-contamination.

This document is an adoption with national modifications, and has been reproduced from, ISO 11193‑1:2020, Single-use medical examination gloves — Part 1: Specification for gloves made from rubber latex or rubber solution. The modifications are set out in national variations boxes which give instructions where the ISO text is to be modified for use in Australia. Due to ISO copyright policy it is not possible to directly modify the ISO content.

The secretariat of this committee is managed by Standards Australia. Please see the attached document on how to access public comment drafts and submitting comments via the Standards Australia Public Commenting Portal, Connect.

The objective of this document is to provide a method for determining the flat crush resistance of corrugating medium.

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The objective of this document is to provide a method for determining the flat crush resistance of corrugating medium.

This document is an adoption with national modifications, and has been reproduced from, ISO 7263‑2:2018, Corrugating medium — Determination of the flat crush resistance after laboratory fluting - Part 2: B-flute. The modifications are set out in national variations boxes which give instructions where the ISO text is to be modified for use in Australia and New Zealand. Due to ISO copyright policy it is not possible to directly modify the ISO content.

The secretariat of this committee is managed by Standards Australia. Please see the attached document on how to access public comment drafts and submitting comments via the Standards Australia Public Commenting Portal, Connect.

This Amendment applies to the following elements:
(a) Front cover
(b) Preface
(c) Amendment 2

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This Amendment applies to the following elements:
(a) Front cover
(b) Preface
(c) Amendment 1 (new)

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The objective of this document is to specify requirements and tests for cable trunking systems (CTS) and cable ducting systems (CDS) intended for the accommodation, and where necessary for the electrically protective separation, of insulated conductors, cables and possibly other electrical equipment in electrical and/or communication systems installations. The maximum voltage of these installations is 1 000 V AC and 1 500 V DC.

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he objective of this document is to specify how to use the Portable Document Format (PDF) specified in ISO 32000‑2 to construct accessible digital documents using PDF technology.
This document does not specify —
(a) processes for converting paper or electronic documents to the PDF/UA format;
(b) technical design, user interface, implementation, or operational details of presentation;
(c) physical methods of storing these documents such as media and storage conditions;
(d) required computer hardware and/or operating systems;
(e) requirements specific to content (beyond facilitating programmatic access and textual representation);
(f) requirements applying to specific classes (e.g. invoices, reports, etc.) of documents.
This document is identical to, and has been reproduced from, ISO 14289‑2:2024, Document management applications — Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility — Part 2: Use of ISO 32000‑2 (PDF/UA-2).

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This Amendment applies to the following elements:
(a) Clauses 1.3, 3.2.3.3, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.4.2, 4.2.5, 5.2.2.1, 5.2.2.2, 5.2.4.2, 5.3.1.2.1, 5.3.1.3.8, 6.3.6.4, 7.2, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10 and 7.11
(b) Figures 2.11 and 2.12
(c) Appendix I (new)
(d) Bibliography

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