Standards Development

Scope

1.1 General

This document specifies the requirements for machines and associated equipment, without rail-wheels, designed and intended for work on railway infrastructure, henceforward referred to as ‘MWR’. This document also covers MWR intended for use on urban rail infrastructure. The types of MWR covered by this document also include:

— MWR with power driven mechanisms;

— MWR with manually driven mechanisms;

— hand-held machines (with ability to attach to track).

NOTE 1 Railway maintenance and infrastructure inspection machines fitted with rail-wheels are dealt with in other European standards, see CEN/TR 17498:2020.This document specifies the requirements to deal with the common hazards during transport, assembly and installation, commissioning, working, including setting up, programming, and process changeover, operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance and decommissioning of MWR and associated equipment when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable.

The requirements set out in this document are intended to control the hazards associated with the engineering aspects of MWR.

NOTE 2 It is anticipated that a safe system of work (see EN 16704‑1:2016+A1:2021) will additionally be required.

NOTE 3 It is anticipated that the manufacturer of the MWR will comply with the Machinery Directive/Machinery Regulations.

1.2 Validity of this document

This document applies to all machines, which are ordered one year after the publication date by CEN of this document.

1.3 Additional application of this document

Infrastructure managers could use this document for certain aspects of a machine that has not been designed specifically for use in a railway environment where the design of these aspects assumes an additional safety relevance when used in a railway environment.