Woodworking machines — Safety — Part 4: Vertical panel circular sawing machines

This document specifies the safety requirements and measures for manually loaded and unloaded vertical panel circular sawing machines (defined in 3.1) capable of continuous production use, with hand feed or integrated feed, hereinafter referred to also as “machines”.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events, as listed in Annex A, relevant to the machines, when operated, adjusted and maintained as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer, including reasonably foreseeable misuse. Transport, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping phases are also taken into account.

This document is also applicable to machines fitted with one or more of the following devices/additional working units, whose hazards have been dealt with:

— an integrated feed device;

— a device for scoring;

— an angle cutting device;

— a middle support device;

— programmable end stops for parallel vertical cuts;

— a device for grooving with a milling tool with a cutting width not exceeding 27 mm;

— a panel pusher;

— a panel lowering device;

— stop devices for workpiece during horizontal cuts.

The machines are designed for cutting panels con