Rigel Medical says its newly upgraded SafeTest handheld safety analyser allows ‘rapid and accurate’ medical device and laboratory equipment testing.
Designed for high performance and accurate electrical testing to reduce the risk of electrical device fault, the improved SafeTest 60+ (pictured) is ‘a compact, rugged, and reliable safety analyser designed to accommodate the demands of high-volume testing regimes’. With an easy-to-use colour coded user interface, push button operation, and fast step selection of test routines, and available in a wide range of power configurations, the tester delivers point-to-point insulation resistance testing from 100K – 100MΩ with added patient applied parts testing.
Featuring an accessible and clear user interface (UI), which allows the operator to select the required tests quickly with a single key, the high-performance instrument includes an extensive selection of safety tests for hospital and medical equipment.
The SafeTest 60+ provides basic testing of medical equipment with applied parts, both patient current leakage and insulation measurement to ensure electrical safety of medical beds and chairs, operating tables, hoists, infusion pumps, CPAPs (continuous positive airway pressure), centrifuges, and other similar equipment that do not require patient lead testing. It is thus suitable for electrical testing to ensure compliance with a range of international safety standards, including leakage testing to AAMI ES 60601, NFPA-99, IEC 62353, and IEC 61010. Key features for dynamic testing include:
- Active pass/fail thresholds during measurement.
- Patient applied parts testing.
- Manual control of fault conditions and tests.
- Accurate high current, low energy earth bond testing.
- Automatic warning of secondary earth/ground paths, and
- Point-to-point insulation testing.
The unit also has the capability to carry out accurate ground bond testing to NFPA-99, IEC 62353, and IEC 61010 using Rigel’s high current, low energy test technology. In all cases, full manual control means that only those specific tests that are required need to be carried out. As part of ‘the new streamlined approach to carrying out electrical safety tests’, an automatic warning of secondary ground paths ensures that users are alerted when invalid results occur, ‘eliminating time-consuming re-tests, and ensuring correct and valid results are provided first time’.
