Four steps can be used to explain the process of creating hazards-based safety regulations. First, sources of energy in the product must be identified. In the case of electronic products some examples of the sources of energy may be wall power or batteries. The second step is to understand the levels of energy available from the different sources for the product. Continuing with the examples of wall power and small batteries, sources such as wall power will have the ability to supply large levels of energy while small batteries may be limited to relatively low energy levels. The third step in creating hazards-based safety regulations is to determine if the previously identified energy sources will be hazardous to the users of the products. Again, using the previous examples, in most instances the wall power is a hazardous energy source while a small battery often will not provide a hazardous level of energy to the user. The last step in creating a hazards-based safety regulation is to ensure protections are incorporated into the product to protect users from the hazardous levels of energy which are present in the product. Using the same examples as earlier, users should be protected from the conductors of the hazardous wall power levels but does not require protection from the conductors of the benign power levels of small batteries. The results from these four steps may be different for every product, but the process should be similar for producing safe products.