European Committee for Standardization

Safety of woodworking machines - One side moulding machines with rotating tool - Part 3: Numerically controlled (NC) boring and routing machines
 N EN 848-3

Annotation

This European Standard specifies all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4, which are relevant to NC boring machines, NC routing machines and NC combined boring/routing machines (as defined in 3.1) herein after referred to as "machines" designed to cut solid wood, chip board, fibreboard, plywood and also these materials where these are covered with plastic/light alloy laminate or edgings when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer including reasonably foreseeable misuse.

Machines which are designed to work wood based materials may also be used for working hardened plastic materials with similar physical characteristics as wood.

This document also applies to machines fitted with:

- additional equipment for sawing, sanding, edge banding or assembly units and dowel devices;

- fixed or movable workpiece support;

- mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic or vacuum workpiece clamping;

- automatic tool change facilities.

This document does not deal with the specific hazards of edge banding equipment fitted to NC boring machines, NC routing machines and NC combined boring/routing machines.

This document is only applicable to NC boring machines, NC routing machines and NC combined boring/routing machines which are designed to use milling tools with a cutting circle diameter below 16 mm or milling tools or saw-blades conforming to EN 847-1:2005+A1:2007 and EN 847-2:2001 and boring tools or sanding wheels.