International Organization for Standardization

Textile machinery - Safety requirements - Part 1: Common requirements - Third Edition
 N 11111-1

Annotation

This part of ISO 11111 specifies safety requirements for frequently occurring hazards common to the types of textile machinery and the hazards of certain machine elements covered by ISO 11111-2 to ISO 11111-7. The standard series is complemented by the type C standards ISO 9902 (all parts) with respect to noise emission measurement and ISO 23771 with respect to measures for the reduction of noise emissions.

This part of ISO 11111 is applicable to machinery plant and related equipment intended to be used in the textile industry for the following purposes:

— opening, cleaning, blending, carding, preparation subsequent to carding, spinning and other processing of fibres (staple and filament) and other materials to form yarn or nonwoven material (including felts);

— winding, doubling, twisting, texturing, etc., of yarns and the processing of yarns preparatory to weaving and knitting;

— weaving, knitting, lace-making and similar utilization of yarn, etc., to form fabric;

— forming of braid, cord, strand, rope, twine, net, etc., except take-up reels of stranding and laying machinery;

— processing, including the pretreatment, bleaching, dyeing, printing and finishing of fibre, yarn, fabric, braid, cord, etc., and final assembly for dispatch;

— piece-dyeing of made-up goods;

— finishing of warp and weft knitting, including hosiery, other than assembly of the finished product (e.g. sewing);