Standards Development

Scope

This European Standard applies to spreaders, stripping and cutting machines, as well as the stick return conveyors (see Clause 4), used for continuous pasta production.

These machines are usually used in a production line but can also operate independently.

When the machines are part of a line, this standard does not cover the other constituent units of the line and their interfaces.

This European standard specifies the safety requirements for the design, manufacture and information for safe use of spreaders, stripping and cutting machines as well as stick return conveyors and deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 5).

It deals with the hazards during the following phases of the machines' lifetime: transport, assembly and installation, commissioning, setting and adjusting, operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance, decommissioning, dismantling, disabling and scrapping.

The measures for risk reduction are given in Clause 6.

This European Standard does not apply to:

— machines for household use,

— machines fed under manual control and working in cycles (batch machines).

The significant hazards covered by this standard are listed in Clause 5.

This European Standard is not applicable to machines in its scope which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN.

Purpose

For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in EN ISO 12100:2010 and the following apply.

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