BS EN 13871:2014

What is BS EN 13871-Safety and hygiene requirements for cubes cutting machinery about?  

BS EN 13871 is a European standard on food processing machinery that discusses the safety and hygiene requirements for cubes cutting machinery to ensure protection against machinery hazards.  

BS EN 13871 covers cube cutting machines and specifies requirements for the design and manufacture. The machines covered by BS EN 13871 are used to size reduce fresh meat, meat products and products of the same kind (e.g., fish, vegetables, and cheese) by cutting in a cutting chamber.  

BS EN 13871 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to machines, appliances, and machinery, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are foreseeable by the manufacturer.  

BS EN 13871 deals with the hazards that can arise during the lifetime of the machine, including the phases of transport, assembly, operation, maintenance, dismantling, disabling, and scrapping of the machine.  

BS EN 13871 covers the following types of cubes cutting machines: 

• Cubes cutting machines with a forward feed plunger, a lattice, and a sickle/multi-segment blade with loading by hand  
• Cubes cutting machines with a forward feed plunger, a lattice, a sickle/multi-segment blade, a feed intake hopper, and a loading device  
• Cubes cutting machines with a rotating cutting tool, a sickle/multi-segment blade and a feed conveyor 
• Cubes cutting machines with a rotating cutting tool and centrifugal force loading  
• Cubes cutting machines with or without integrated conveyor systems. 

Who is BS EN 13871-Safety and hygiene requirements for cubes cutting machinery for? 

BS EN 13871 on the safety and hygiene requirements for cubes cutting machinery is useful for: 

• Cubes cutting machinery manufacturers 
• Cubes cutting machinery designers 
• Cubes cutting machinery test personnel 
• Occupational health and safety departments  
• Risk assessment authorities  

Why should you use BS EN 13871-Safety and hygiene requirements for cubes cutting machinery?  

Safeguards are essential to protect workers from injury. Any machine part, function, or process that might cause injury should be safeguarded. When the operation of a machine may result in a contact injury to the operator or others in the area, the hazard should be removed or controlled. 

BS EN 13871 provides you guidance with a list of significant hazards, safety, and hygiene requirements and/or protective measures, mechanical hazards, hydraulic and pneumatic hazards, hazard from loss of stability, noise reduction and ergonomic requirements. 

The requirements provided by BS EN 13871 assist you in improving the quality and performance of cubes cutting machinery and ensure protection to workers against the risk of mechanical hazards, electrical hazards, hazards generated by neglecting hygienic design principles, hazards generated by neglecting ergonomic principles. 

With obedience and compliance to BS EN 13871, you can enhance the efficacy of the cubes cutting machinery and manufacture a standardized product. 

What is changed since the last update?  

BS EN 13871:2014 supersedes EN 13871:2005+A1:2010, which is withdrawn. BS EN 13871:2014 has made some technical changes compared to the previous editions EN 13871:2005+A1:2010. These include: 

• Clarification of the Scope. Normative references updated. Terms partly revised. consistent use throughout the standard. Figures partly renewed 
• Requirements for interlocking devices and the stopping time. More specific requirements to product pusher, protective rail and blade guide. Requirements to blade housing and blade guard 
• Verification list updated. Completion of 7.2 with all information referred to in Clause 5, now including operator training. 7.3 now contains the marking 
• Old Annex C “Common hazards” deleted and shifted into appropriate clauses