Woodworking machines -- Safety -- Part 2: Horizontal beam panel circular sawing machines

This part of ISO 19085 gives the safety requirements for horizontal beam panel circular sawing machines with the saw carriage of the front cutting line mounted below the work-piece support, which are manually or powered loaded and/or manually unloaded, hereinafter referred to as “machines”.

This part of ISO 19085 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events, as listed in Clause 4, relevant to the machines when they are operated, adjusted and maintained as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer, including reasonably foreseeable misuse. Also, transport, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping phases have been taken into account.

It is also applicable to machines fitted with one or more of the following devices/facilities:

— a side pressure device;

— the facility for powered unloading;

— the facility for scoring;

— the facility for post-formed/soft-formed edge pre-cutting;

— a panel turning device;

— a front side turn table;

— a pushing out device;

— pneumatic clamping of the saw blade;

— a powered panel loading device;

— a device for grooving by milling tool;

— additional cutting line(s) inside the machine for longitudinal and/or head cut (before transversal cutting line);

— work-piece vacuum clamping as part of a front side turn table or of a panel loading device.

The machines are designed for cutting panels consisting of

a) solid wood,

b) material with similar physical characteristics to wood (see ISO 19085-1:—, 3.2),

c) gypsum boards, gypsum bounded fibreboards,

d) composite boards made from the materials listed above,

e) composite materials with core consisting of e.g. polyurethane or mineral material laminated with light alloy.

This document does not deal with specific hazards related to

1) specific features which differ from the dashed list above,

2) the machining of panels with milling tools for grooving,

3) the powered unloading of panels,

4) the rear half of the split pressure beam on the front cutting line,

5) the combination of a single machine being used with any other machine (as part of a line).

It is not applicable to machines intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres or to machines manufactured prior to the date of its publication