Machine tools safety — Machining centres, milling machines, transfer machines — Part 1: Safety requirements

This document specifies the technical safety requirements and protective measures for the design, construction and supply (including installation and dismantling, with arrangements for transport and maintenance) of:

— milling machines (see 3.1.1), including machines capable of performing boring operations (see 3.1.2);

— machining centres; and

— transfer machines (see 3.1.3)

designed for continuous production use, which are intended to cut cold metal and other non-combustible cold materials, except wood or materials with physical characteristics similar to those of wood as defined in ISO 19085 1 and glass, stone and engineered/agglomerated materials as defined in EN 14618.

This document covers the following machines (referred to as "machines" in this document):

a) manually, without numerical control, operated boring and milling machines (see 3.2.1, Group 1), e.g. knee and column type milling machines (see Figures C.1 and C.2);

b) manually, with limited numerical control, operated boring and milling machines (see 3.2.2, Group 2), e.g. profile and contouring milling machines (see Figures C.3 and C.4);

c) numerically controlled milling machines and machining centres (see 3.2.3,