This Part 1 of the UL 745 series of standards only covers GeneralRequirements for Portable Electric Tools and for a particulaThis Part 2 of the UL 745 series of standards is to be usedin conjunction with the First Edition of UL 745-1, the Standard for Safety ofPortable Electric Tools - Part 1: General Requirements.
UL 60745-1, the Standard for Safety of Hand-heldMotor-operated Electric Tools � Part 1: General Requirements, third edition,dated March 26, 2004, is the current Standard.�UL 60745-1 supercedes UL 745-1, first edition, and UL 745-3, as thebattery requirements are contained in the Annex of the current Standard.�
The previous edition of UL 745-1, first edition, remainsavailable.� Please note that asubscription service is available for both editions of UL 745-1 and UL 60745-1(the second edition was purposely skipped to line up with the IECrequirements).� A subscription to eitheredition will only provide bulletins and future updates for that particularedition.
As of June 1, 2010,all products Listed or Recognized by UL must comply with the requirements in UL60745-1.
Between March 26,2004 and June 1, 2010, new product submittals to UL must be evaluated under allrequirements in UL 60745-1 or, if requested in writing, evaluated underpresently effective requirements only. The presently effective requirements arecontained in the first edition of UL 745-1.
Alternateconstructions, currently Listed to the UL 45, eighth edition, may be evaluatedto the first edition of UL 745-1 as referenced in the June 7, 2002 bulletin.