Standards Development

Scope

This document specifies the safety requirements and measures for

— cold presses,

— hot presses,

— bending presses,

— edge/face gluing presses,

— membrane presses, and

— embossing presses,

where the pressing force is applied by hydraulic, pneumatic or electrical actuators pushing two flat or shaped surfaces against each other, capable of continuous production use, altogether referred to as “machines”.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Annex A, relevant to machines, when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable, as well as when it is transported, assembled, adjusted, maintained, disabled, dismantled and scrapped.

The machines are designed to process workpieces consisting of:

— solid wood;

— materials with similar characteristics to wood (see ISO DIS 19085-1:2025, 3.2), except those with light alloy laminates or edges or profiles for high-frequency presses;

— engineered wood (wood-based material) such as particleboard, fibreboard and plywood composed or laminated with steel sheets or edges or profiles, except for high-frequency presses;

— honeycomb board;

— composite boards made from the materials listed above.

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

a) a device for hot gluing;

b) a device for high-frequency gluing in the frequency range from 1 MHz to 400 MHz;

c) a device for high-frequency shaping in the frequency range from 1 MHz to 400 MHz;

d) an automatic workpiece loading and unloading system;

e) an intermediate additional platen;

f) a workpiece extractor;

g) a horizontal pressing system;

h) split moveable platens.

This document does not deal with any hazards related to:

— specific devices that differ from the list above;

— hot fluid heating systems internal to the machine other than electrical;

— hot fluid heating systems of any type external to the machine;

— operation of taking intermediate platens out and in again;

— the combination of a single machine being used with any other machine (as part of a line).

This document is not applicable to:

— carcass clamps;

— membrane presses where the pressing force is applied by vacuum only;

— presses for producing particleboard, fibreboard, OSB;

— machines intended for use in potentially explosive atmosphere;

— machines manufactured before the date of publication of this document.