EN 1870-13:2007

This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4 which are relevant to horizontal beam panel sawing machines where the saw unit is mounted below the workpiece support and which are manually or mechanically loaded and / or unloaded, fitted with:a side pressure device and / orthe facility for scoring and / orthe facility for post-formed / soft-formed edge pre-cutting and / ora panel turning device and / ora pushing out device and / orpneumatic clamping of the saw blade and / ora powered panel loading device and / ora grooving device and / oradditional cutting line(s) inside the machine for longitudinal and / or head cut (before transversal cutting line) and / orworkpiece vacuum clamping as part of a panel turning device or of a panel loading device,hereinafter referred to as "machines" when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer.The machines are designed for cutting panels consisting of:a)wood based materials such as chipboard, fibreboard, plywood and also these materials where they are covered with plastic/light alloy laminates which can be cut easily;b)solid wood;c)hardened rubber and hardened plastic material;d)non ferrous materials e.g. light alloy;e)gypsum boards, gypsum bounded fibreboards;f)composite boards made from the materials listed above.This document does not deal with specific hazards related to:i)specific features which differ from the list above;ii)the machining of panels with grooving tools;iii)mechanical unloading of panels;iv)the combination of a single machine being used with any other machine (as part of a line).This document is not applicable to horizontal beam panel sawing machines which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN.NOTEMachines covered by this standard if manually loaded and / or unloaded are listed under A.1.4 of Annex IV of the Machinery D