BS PD IEC GUIDE 116:2018 complements ISO/IEC Guide 51 and establishes guidelinesuseful for achieving SAFETY in low voltage (LV) equipment. These guidelines include RISKASSESSMENT, in which the knowledge and experience of the design, use, incidents, accidentsand HARM related to LOW VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT are brought together in order to assess the RISKsduring the relevant phases of the life of the equipment, as specified in Clause 6, and toimplement the basic principles for RISK REDUCTION MEASUREs. This IEC guide should be usedby technical committees as far as appropriate and to the extent they decide to apply it.