IEC TR 60601-4-4:2017(E) is intended to assist writers when drafting alarm system-related requirements for particular standards in the IEC60601 and IEC80601 or ISO80601 series of standards.
The object of this document is to encourage consistent references to alarm system-related requirements when introducing those requirements to particular standards. This is accomplished by providing suggested model language, with examples, for common alarm system-related requirements. Each of the recommendations is based upon text that has been used in existing particular standards. The expectation is that this model language will be used when alarm system-related requirements are needed in particular standards.
The collateral standard for alarm systems, IEC60601-1-8, contains the horizontal alarm system-related requirements for meequipment and mesystems. The recommendations in this document are intended to aid the writers of particular standards when referencing IEC60601-1-8:2006 and IEC60601-1-8:2006/AMD1:2012.