NBN EN 609-1 : 1999 + A2 2010

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
  3.1 Wedge splitter
4 Safety requirements
  4.1 Electrical equipment
  4.2 Safety and reliability of control systems
  4.3 Starting and stopping
  4.4 Hydraulic equipment
  4.5 Holding devices
  4.6 Guarding of the splitting zone
  4.7 Return movement of the splitting wedge
  4.8 Stability
  4.9 Additional requirements for vertical wedge
       splitters
  4.10 Guarding of mechanical drives
5 Verification of safety requirements
6 Information for use
  6.1 Marking
  6.2 Warning notices
  6.3 Instruction handbook
Annex A (normative) List of hazards
Annex ZA (informative) Clauses of this European Standard
         addressing essential requirements or other
         provisions of EU Directives

Defines safety requirements and their verification, for the design and construction of wedge splitters, meant to be used by one operator for splitting wood, irrespective of the nature of the power source used.