BS 6854-2:1988

Foreword
Committees responsible
Code of practice
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Statutory requirements
4 Circular and dimension saws
5 Cross-cutting sawing machines
6 Panel sawing machines
7 Multiple rip sawing machines/straight-line edging
    machines
8 Hand-held machines
9 Noise
10 Extraction equipment
11 Power systems
12 Safe working practices
13 Maintenance of safeguards
14 Provision of information
Figures
1 Circular saw bench
2 Dimension saw bench
3 Scoring saw unit fitted to a dimension saw bench
4 Open frame circular saw bench
5 Recommended thickness of riving knife
6 Riving knife fixing
7 Riving knife fixing with slots for vertical and
    horizontal adjustment
8 Riving knife and guard with warning notice
    specifying the smallest diameter saw blade which may
    be used on the machine
9 Plastics crown guard with front and rear pressure
    rollers and dust extraction outlet
10 Self-adjusting guard for small sawing machines with
    blade up to 300 mm diameter
11 Self-adjusting guard for plywood cutting carried on
    wide riving knife
12 A distance guard on a circular sawing machine
13 Rip fence; normal height
14 Rip fence; reduced height
15 Straight-grained hardwood push stick
16 Shaw guard for rebating, moulding and grooving on a
    saw bench
17 Guard boards attached to the machine table and fence
    for use when grooving
18 Manually operated single type radial arm sawing
    machine
19 A semi-automatic cross-cutting sawing machine with
    saw blade mounted above the table
20 An automatic cross-cutting sawing machine
21 Guard for snipper cross-cutting sawing machine
22 Pendulum type
23 Travelling head type of cross-cutting machine with
    an adjustable guard at the lower part of the blade
24 A semi-automatic cross-cutting sawing machine with a
    rise and fall blade enclosed in an interlocking
    tunnel guard
25 Beam panel sawing machine
26 Vertical panel sawing machine
27 Multiple blade panel sawing machine with pressure
    rollers to hold the panel as it is fed by a conveyor
28 Multiple blade panel sawing machine with pressure
    rollers mounted on an overhead beam
29 Rear view of a multiple blade panel sawing machine
    showing attachments for dust extraction at each saw
    unit
30 Automatic panel sawing machine
31 Automatic panel sawing machine with individual
    longitudinal and transverse cutting saw units
32 Guard for the saw unit of a vertical panel sawing
    machine
33 Multiple rip sawing machine with saw blades mounted
    below the table
34 Multiple rip sawing machine with saw blades mounted
    above the table
35 Straight-line edging machine with saw blade mounted
    under the table
36 A curved guard fitted to a straight-line edging
    machine
37 A side plate fitted to a straight-line edging
    machine
38 Side plates to the anti-kickback fingers in a
    straight-line edging machine with saw blades mounted
    above the table
39 Example of hand-held circular sawing machine and its
    safeguards
40 A bench mounted hand-held circular sawing machine
41 A method of pegging saws to reduce noise caused by
    resonant vibrations
42 Noise reducing guard for circular saw
43 Push stick in use on a circular sawing machine
44 A log cross-cutting machine fitted with a pivoted
    trough type holder with a gripping lever arrangement

Recommendations for cutters and other dangerous parts, with and without travelling tables, dimension sawing machines (including rise and fall cross-cut saws and truss saws), panel saws (beam and vertical), multiple rip sawing/straight line edging machines and portable machines.