Leading TV Manufacturers sign Voluntary Fire Safety Commitment
November 2004Television sets sold in Europe are manufactured to meet the safety requirements of EN 600/65. While this standard ensures that the TVs are intrinsically safe, they only require very low fire protection levels against external ignition sources.
Test burns as well as real fires again and again demonstrate the need to apply higher fire safety levels to the plastic enclosures. Over the past years, ACFSE members have established a dialogue with leading manufacturers resulting in the signing of the voluntary commitment in November 2004.
With this commitment, Philips, Sony, Panasonic and Finlux agree to apply V1 ignition resistance level to the full enclosures of all their CRT models sold in Europe as of 1 st January 2006.
In applying this higher ignition resistance level, these leading manufacturers significantly raise the consumer fire safety in the homes. Together with these manufacturers ACFSE calls upon the remaining TV manufacturers to follow this move and join the commitment.