Scope
This document gives safety requirements and measures common to most of the woodworking machines, capable of continuous production use, designed to process solid wood and materials with similar physical characteristics to wood, with hand feed or integrated feed, hereinafter referred to as “machines”.
This document deals with significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, listed in Annex A, relevant to the machines, when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer; reasonably foreseeable misuse has been considered too. Transport, assembly, adjustment, maintenance, disabling, dismantling and scrapping phases have also been taken into account.
This document is not applicable to machines intended for use in potential explosive atmospheres or to machines manufactured prior to the date of its publication.
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