National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN ISO 19085‑4:2024. It is identical to ISO 19085‑4:2024. It supersedes BS EN ISO 19085‑4:2018, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee MTE/23, Woodworking machines.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 October 2024.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 23 May 2024.

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European foreword

This document (EN ISO 19085‑4:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 39 "Machine tools" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 142 “Woodworking machines - Safety” the secretariat of which is held by UNI.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by April 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by October 2026.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN ISO 19085‑4:2018.

This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CEN by the European Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests for its Member States.

For the relationship with EU Legislation, see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part of this document.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body/national committee. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

Endorsement notice

The text of ISO 19085‑4:2024 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 19085‑4:2024 without any modification.

Foreword

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 39, Machine tools, Subcommittee SC 4, Woodworking machines, in collaboration with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee CEN/TC 142, Woodworking machines — Safety, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement).

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 19085‑4:2018), which has been technically revised.

The main changes are as follows:

the Scope now specifies that machines are intended for continuous production use;
the main definitions have been improved (machine and cutting cycle) with the addition of defined intermediate terms;
the list of significant hazards has been moved to a new Annex A;
the structure has been simplified and modified, in particular in 5.6;
the panel lowering device and relevant requirements have been added;
subclause 6.2 has been updated and a new full noise test code has been added in Annex F.

A list of all parts in the ISO 19085 series can be found on the ISO website.

Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found at www.iso.org/members.html.

Introduction

The ISO 19085 series provides technical safety requirements for the design and construction of woodworking machinery, as well as for the content of the relevant instruction handbook. It concerns designers, manufacturers, suppliers and importers of the machines specified in the Scope.

This document is a type-C standard as defined in ISO 12100.

This document is of relevance, in particular, for the following stakeholder groups representing the market players with regard to machinery safety:

machine manufacturers (small, medium and large enterprises);
health and safety bodies (e.g. regulators, accident prevention organisations, market surveillance).

Others can be affected by the level of machinery safety achieved with the means of the document by the above-mentioned stakeholder groups:

machine users/employers (small, medium and large enterprises);
machine users/employees (e.g. trade unions, organizations for people with special needs);
service providers, for example, for maintenance (small, medium and large enterprises);
consumers (in case of machinery intended for use by consumers).

The above-mentioned stakeholder groups have been given the possibility to participate in the drafting process of this document.

The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events are covered are indicated in the Scope of this document.

When requirements of this type-C standard are different from those which are stated in type-A or type-B standards (as defined in ISO 12100), the requirements of this type-C standard take precedence over the requirements of the other standards for machines that have been designed and built according to the requirements of this type-C standard.

The full set of requirements for a particular type of woodworking machine are those given in the part of the ISO 19085 series applicable to that type, together with the relevant requirements from ISO 19085‑1, to the extent specified in the Scope of the applicable part of the ISO 19085 series.

As far as possible, the safety requirements of parts of the ISO 19085 series refer to the relevant subclauses of ISO 19085‑1. Each part includes replacements and additions to the common requirements given in ISO 19085‑1.

All parts of the ISO 19085 series have the same structure, so that reference to ISO 19085‑1 is made always and only from and to the same subclause number at the last indent level.

Clauses 1 to 3 are specific to each part and, therefore are distinct from ISO 19085‑1:2021, Clauses 1 to 3.

For Clauses 4 to 7 and the annexes, each subclause in ISO 19085‑1:2021 is cited as either:

confirmed as a whole;
confirmed with additions;
excluded entirely; or
replaced with specific text.

This is indicated by one of the following possible statements:

“ISO 19085‑1:2021, [subclause/Annex], applies”;
“ISO 19085‑1:2021, [subclause/Annex], applies with the following additions.” or “ISO 19085‑1:2021, [subclause/Annex], applies with the following additions, subdivided into further specific subclauses.”;
“ISO 19085‑1:2021, [subclause/Annex], does not apply.”;
“ISO 19085‑1:2021, [subclause/Annex], is replaced by the following text.” or “ISO 19085‑1:2021, [subclause/Annex], is replaced by the following text, subdivided into further specific subclauses.”.

Other subclauses and annexes specific to this document are indicated by the introductory sentence: “Subclause/Annex specific to this document.”.

1 Scope

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 consisting of:

solid wood;
material with similar physical characteristics to wood (see ISO 19085‑1:2021, 3.2);
composite materials with core consisting, for example, of polyurethane or mineral material laminated with light alloy;
polymer-matrix composite materials and reinforced thermoplastic/thermoset/elastomeric materials;
gypsum boards, gypsum bounded fibreboards;
honeycomb aluminium boards;
matrix engineered mineral boards, silicate boards;
aluminium light alloy plates;
composite boards made from the materials listed above.

This document does not apply to machines

with pressure beam and saw unit mounted behind the workpiece support,
where the guide rails on which the saw unit moves vertically are fixed on the machine frame and the horizontal cut can only be made by manually feeding the panel,
designed to cut in vertical direction only,
automatically performing two or more cutting cycles in sequence,
intended for use in potentially explosive atmosphere, and
manufactured prior to the publication of this document.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Safety requirements and measures for controls

4.1 Safety and reliability of control systems

4.2 Control devices

4.3 Start

4.4 Safe stops

4.5 Braking function of tools

4.6 Mode selection

4.7 Tool speed changing

4.8 Failure of any power supply

4.9 Manual reset control

4.10 Standstill detection and monitoring

4.11 Machine moving parts speed monitoring

4.12 Time delay

4.13 Teleservice

5 Safety requirements and measures for protection against mechanical hazards

5.1 Stability

5.2 Risk of break-up during operation

5.3 Tool holder and tool design

5.4 Braking

5.5 Safeguards

5.6 Prevention of access to hazardous moving parts

5.7 Impact hazard

5.8 Clamping devices

5.9 Measures against ejection

5.10 Workpiece supports and guides

6 Safety requirements and measures for protection against other hazards

6.1 Fire

6.2 Noise

6.3 Emission of chips and dust

6.4 Electricity

6.5 Ergonomics and handling

6.6 Lighting

6.7 Pneumatics

6.8 Hydraulics

6.9 Electromagnetic compatibility

6.10 Laser

6.11 Static electricity

6.12 Errors of fitting

6.13 Isolation

6.14 Maintenance

6.15 Relevant but not significant hazards

7 Information for use

7.1 Warning devices

7.2 Marking

7.3 Instruction handbook

BS EN ISO 19085-4:2024

Woodworking machines. Safety - Vertical panel circular sawing machines

Current, Under Review

Published:

31 Oct 2024