This Standard is a service management system (SMS) standard.

It specifies requirements for the service provider to plan, establish, implement, operate, monitor, review, maintain and improve an SMS.

The requirements include the design, transition, delivery and improvement of services to fulfil service requirements.

This Standard can be used by:

a) an organization seeking services from service providers and requiring assurance that their service requirements will be fulfilled;

b) an organization that requires a consistent approach by all its service providers, including those in a supply chain;

c) a service provider that intends to demonstrate its capability for the design, transition, delivery and improvement of services that fulfil service requirements;

d) a service provider to monitor, measure and review its service management processes and services;

e) a service provider to improve the design, transition and delivery of services through effective implementation and operation of an SMS;

f) an assessor or auditor as the criteria for a conformity assessment of a service providers SMS to the requirements in this Standard.

This Standard specifies the safety requirements for information technology equipment intended to be installed in an outdoor location (hereafter referred to as outdoor equipment).

This Standard also applies, where relevant, to outdoor enclosures suitable for direct installation in the field and supplied for housing information technology equipment to be installed in an outdoor location.

NOTE The International Standard corresponding to this Standard and the symbol of degree of correspondence are as follows.

IEC 60950-22 : 2016 Information technology equipment — Safety — Part 22 : Equipment to be installed outdoors (MOD)

In addition, symbols which denote the degree of correspondence in the contents between the relevant International Standard and JIS are IDT (identical), MOD (modified), and NEQ (not equivalent) according to ISO/IEC Guide 21-1.

Application of requirements

For outdoor equipment and outdoor enclosures, requirements in JIS C 6950-1 and this Standard apply.

If requirements specified in these standards differ, requirements in this Standard takes precedence.

Each installation may have particular requirements.

Some examples are given in 4.2.

In addition, requirements for protection of the outdoor equipment against the effects of direct lightning strikes are not covered by this Standard.

For information on this subject, see JIS Z 9290-1.