European Committee for Standardization

Safety of woodworking machines - Combined woodworking machines - Incorporates Amendment A1: 2012
 N EN 940

Annotation

This document specifies all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4 which are relevant to stationary and displaceable combined woodworking machines with two or more of only the following integrated units:

— surface planing,

— circular sawing (working simultaneously or not with vertical spindle moulding unit),

— vertical spindle moulding,

— boring [mortising] and

— thickness planing

hereinafter referred to as machines, designed to cut solid wood, chipboard, fibreboard, plywood, and also these materials where they are covered with plastic laminates or edging or veneer, when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer including reasonably foreseeable misuse.

NOTE 1 For the definitions of stationary and displaceable machine see !3.2.12 and 3.2.13.

NOTE 2 The specific requirements on demountable power feed unit will be considered during next revision of this document.

This document does not apply to:

— combined machines which consist only of a surface planing unit and a thickness planing unit;

NOTE 3 Combined machines consisting of only of a surface planing unit and a thickness planing unit are dealt with in EN 861:2007+A2:2012.