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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative References
3 Terms and definitions
4 List of significant hazards
5 Safety requirements and/or measures
  5.1 General requirements for design, planning and
       risk assessment
       5.1.1 Planning of long product rolling mills
       5.1.2 Structural assembly
       5.1.3 Safety layout
       5.1.4 Access to operating points
       5.1.5 Access to danger zones
       5.1.6 Guards
       5.1.7 Guard-rails
       5.1.8 Safety signs and warning devices
       5.1.9 Safe guarding
       5.1.10 Personal protective equipment
       5.1.11 Electrical equipment
       5.1.12 Pneumatic and fluid systems
       5.1.13 Software manipulation
       5.1.14 Material to be discharged to drains
       5.1.15 Surface temperatures and heat radiation
       5.1.16 Pulpits and control stands
       5.1.17 Hold-to run control
       5.1.18 Mechanical restraint devices
       5.1.19 Fire protection
       5.1.20 Ergonomics
       5.1.21 Vibrations
       5.1.22 Loss of energy
       5.1.23 Material monitoring systems
       5.1.24 Linked Equipment
  5.2 List of significant hazards, hazardous situations,
       safety requirements and/or measures
       5.2.1 General
       5.2.2 Bridges and underpasses
       5.2.3 High-pressure descaling units
       5.2.4 Roller tables and conveyors
       5.2.5 Rolling stands
       5.2.6 Rolling blocks (wire rod mills and high
              speed bar mills)
       5.2.7 Cross transfers, collecting beds and tilting
              devices
       5.2.8 Pulpits and control stands
       5.2.9 Measuring devices and display units
       5.2.10 Hot and cold saws, shears and abrasive cutting
              machines
       5.2.11 Cooling lines
       5.2.12 Cooling beds
       5.2.13 Straightening equipment
       5.2.14 Piling equipment
       5.2.15 Binding machines
       5.2.16 Marking machines
       5.2.17 Loading equipment/collecting tables
       5.2.18 Preparation area for stands, rolls, guides,
              straightening rollers
       5.2.19 Laying heads for wire rod mills
       5.2.20 Collecting chambers for wire rod mills
       5.2.21 Cooling boxes for wire rod mills
       5.2.22 Pinch rolls for wire rod mills
  5.3 Noise reduction as a safety requirement
       5.3.1 Noise reduction at source by design
       5.3.2 Noise reduction by protective measures
       5.3.3 Noise reduction by information
       5.3.4 Noise sources and examples of noise
              reduction measures
6 Verification of the safety requirements and/or measures
7 Information for use
  7.1 General
  7.2 Warning devices and safety signs
  7.3 Minimum marking
  7.4 Accompanying documents
       7.4.1 Instruction handbook
       7.4.2 Machine/equipment declaration
       7.4.3 Detailed information/instructions
  7.5 Maintenance manual
Annex A (normative) - Safety requirements and/or measures
        for control systems at long product rolling mills
  A.1 General
  A.2 Special requirements for controls
  A.3 Special requirements for shut-down equipment
       A.3.1 Stop functions/emergency stop functions
       A.3.2 Specific hazards at mechanical equipment
       A.3.3 Selection of stop functions
       A.3.4 Emergency stop areas
       A.3.5 Stop functions for electrical equipment
Annex B (normative) - Fluid systems
  B.1 Significant hazards
  B.2 Safety requirements and/or measures
       B.2.1 General
       B.2.2 General design requirements
       B.2.3 List of significant hazards, hazardous
              situations, safety requirements and/or measures
Annex C (normative) - Noise test code
  C.1 Introduction
  C.2 Determination of sound power level
  C.3 Determination of emission sound pressure
       levels
       C.3.1 Determination of the emission sound
              pressure level at specified measuring points
       C.3.2 Determination of emission sound
              pressure level at work stations
  C.4 Measurement uncertainty
  C.5 Operating conditions
  C.6 Information to be recorded and reported
  C.7 Declaration and verification of noise emission values
Annex D (normative) - Protection of persons in case of
        using asphyxiant gases used in fire fighting
        systems
  D.1 General
  D.2 Warning devices
  D.3 Restraint devices
  D.4 Preliminary warning time
  D.5 Interrupt device for extinguishing gas
  D.6 Blocking devices
  D.7 Pipes
  D.8 Rooms and adjacent areas
  D.9 Escape routes
  D.10 Doors
  D.11 Marking
  D.12 Instruction handbook
Annex E (informative) - Example for manufacturer's safety
        instructions for maintenance at long product
        rolling mills
  E.1 Precautions to reduce hazards caused by
       E.1.1 Lack of instructions
       E.1.2 Visual or audible checks at machinery in motion
       E.1.3 Unintentional movements during maintenance
       E.1.4 Work during standstill with safeguards disabled
       E.1.5 Work with hazardous substances
       E.1.6 Plant re-start
Annex F (informative) - Machines and/or equipment covered by
        this standard
  F.1 Machines and/or equipment covered by this
       standard but are not limited to
       F.1.1 Plants
       F.1.2 Equipment
Annex G (informative) - Example for the risk analysis due
        to interfaces
Annex ZA (normative) - Relationship between this European
         Standard and the Essential Requirements of EU
         Directive 2006/42/EC
Bibliography

BS EN 15949