Description of BS EN 848-3:2012 2012

This European Standard specifies all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4, which are relevant to NC boring machines, NC routing machines and NC combined boring/routing machines (as defined in 3.1) herein after referred to as "machines" designed to cut solid wood, chip board, fibreboard, plywood and also these materials where these are covered with plastic/light alloy laminate or edgings when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer including reasonably foreseeable misuse.

Machines which are designed to work wood based materials may also be used for working hardened plastic materials with similar physical characteristics as wood.

This document also applies to machines fitted with:

• additional equipment for sawing, sanding, edge banding or assembly units and dowel devices;

• fixed or movable workpiece support;

• mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic or vacuum workpiece clamping;

• automatic tool change facilities.

This document does not deal with the specific hazards of edge banding equipment fitted to NC boring machines, NC routing machines and NC combined boring/routing machines.

This document is only applicable to NC boring machines, NC routing machines and NC combined boring/routing machines which are designed to use milling tools with a cutting circle diameter below 16 mm or milling tools or saw-blades conforming to EN 847-1:2005+A1:2007 and EN 847-2:2001 and boring tools or sanding wheels.

This document is not applicable to NC boring machines, NC routing machines and NC combined boring/routing machines which are designed to use grinding wheels.

This document is not applicable to single spindle hand fed/integrated fed routing machines.

NOTE Single spindle hand fed/integrated fed routing machines are dealt with in EN 848-2:2007+A1:2009.

This document does not deal with the specific hazards of ejection through openings on machines where the distance between the work-piece support and the lower edge of the partial enclosure exceeds 400 mm.

This document is not applicable to NC boring machines, NC routing machines and NC combined boring/routing machines which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN.

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