British Standards Institution

Source:: BSI
Committee:: MTE/1/1 - Machine tools - Safety
Categories:: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Scope

To provide essential guidance to the manufacturing industry, for the provision/use of vision panels on machinery; ultimately eliminating the risk to machine tool operators from high-speed ejected parts or tooling, due to compromised vision panels; especially those predating the machinery directive, second had purchases or where the manufacturers documentation/ recommendations is unavailable, (so the inspection and maintenance requirements are unknown).

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1. Proposal

Proposal start date:

21/06/2024

Proposal end date:

20/07/2024

2. Draft

3. Public Comments

4. Comment Resolution

5. Approval

6. Publication

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BS XXXX Safe use of machine tools – vision panel inspection and maintenance

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