NPT-1020 Installation and Maintenance Manual
Before You Start
ECI Telecom Ltd. Proprietary
3-20
3.8
Environmental and Health Concerns
ECI is committed to achieving high standards of environmental quality and product safety.
The International Standardization Organization (ISO) has developed the internationally recognized
standards ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. These are quality management standards that are administered by
independent accreditation and certification bodies.
ISO 9000 is a family of standards for quality management systems that has been accepted as a model when
assessing the adequacy of quality management systems. Some of the requirements in ISO 9001 (one of the
standards in the ISO 9000 family) include:
Procedures that cover all key business processes
Process monitoring to ensure effectiveness
Adequate record-keeping
Monitoring output for defects, with appropriate and corrective action where necessary
Regular review of individual processes and the complete quality system as a whole
Facilitating continual improvement
ISO 14000 is the international specification for an Environmental Management System (EMS). It specifies
requirements for establishing an environmental policy, determining environmental aspects and impacts of
products, activities, and services, planning environmental objectives and measurable targets,
implementation and operation of programs to meet objectives and targets, checking and corrective action,
and management review. ECI Quality and Environmental Management Systems were certified to these ISO
standards and are periodically audited by third-party organizations.
As a part of ECI’s environmental commitment and in pursuit of compliance with applicable environmental
legislation, ECI makes every effort to ensure that its products supplied to the EU market are compliant with
the RoHS Europe directive restricting use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic
equipment. ECI also requires RoHS compliance from all its suppliers. All new electrical and electronic
equipment delivered to locations within the EU do not contain any cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), hexavalent
chromium compounds (Cr
6+
), mercury (Hg), polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), or polybrominated diphenyl
ethers (PBDE), subject to certain exemptions and limitations as outlined in the RoHS directive.
Without limiting the generality of the preceding statement, we wish to stress that use of lead in solders in
network infrastructure equipment has been exempted by the RoHS directive and may be found in certain
ECI products.
All equipment delivered to locations within the EU complies with the requirements of the RoHS Europe
directive. Similarly, ECI equipment is compliant with the RoHS California directive and RoHS Chinese
directive where relevant. All ECI equipment included in the Electronic Information Products (EIP) category
includes a table of Toxic and Hazardous Substances and Elements, verifying hazardous substance levels in
accordance with the RoHS China directive. Equipment documentation includes the appropriate
Environmental Protection Use Period (EPUP) lifespan symbol indicating the point in time when the
equipment may be expected to enter the recycling system. The following are examples of these pollution
control symbols.
