QUERY: Conformity European (CE) Certification issues

[Shelley Strong <sstrong -at- TECHREPS -dot- COM>]

I'm posting the following for a friend because I haven't a clue how to
answer him. Perhaps some of you list members could give better directions or
answers than I:

>Perhaps you can offer some advice on a problem.  I started this week on a
>new tech writing job for The Bell Group, a manufacturing company.  The
>problem is that they want their machine and documentation to be Conformity
>European (CE) Certified so they can be distributed in Europe.  Are you
>familiar with CE certification, and if so, so you know of a ready reference
>type book or series of books that might help me identify the key issues so I
>can incorporate them into the text and design of the Operator's Handbook and
>eventually the Technician's Handbook?  Also, have you ever seen a CD-ROM with
>warning symbols and labels in electronic format.  I could spend months
>scanning and or redrawing the symbols, and I don't yet have a complete list
>at that.

>Perhaps some of the ISO 9000 materials that STC has been so involved in
>might be of help? Even if you could point me in the right direction, it
>would be a big help.  They of course want all of this done by October 15,
>and I just started Monday.  Sound familiar?

If you can help, please respond to Joseph (not a list member) at
<jwcarp -at- swcp -dot- com>.

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