Standards Development

Scope

This document specifies the safety requirements and measures for circular saw benches with or without sliding table or demountable power feed unit or both and capable of continuous production use, also known as “table saws” (in the USA), hereinafter referred to also as “machines”.

The machines are designed to cut solid wood and material with similar physical characteristics to wood (see ISO DIS 19085-1:2025, 3.2).

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, listed in Annex A, relevant to the machine when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable.

This document is also applicable to the other life cycle phases of the machines: transport, assembly, adjustment, maintenance, disabling, dismantling and scrapping.

This document is also applicable to machines fitted with one or more of the following devices or working units, whose hazards have been dealt with:

a) device for the main saw blade and scoring saw blade to be raised and lowered through the table;

b) device to tilt the main saw blade and scoring saw blade for angled cutting in one direction from the vertical position only;

c) device for scoring;

d) device for grooving with milling tool with a width not exceeding 20 mm in one pass;

e) demountable power feed unit;

f) additional manually operated sliding table;

g) powered workpiece clamping device.

This document does not apply to:

— machines intended for outdoor use on building sites;

NOTE Building site saws (contractor saws) are covered by the requirements of ISO 19085-10.

— handheld woodworking machines including any adaptation permitting their use in a different mode, i.e. bench mounting;

— machines intended for use in a potentially explosive atmosphere;

— machines manufactured prior to the publication of this document.