scope:

This document covers requirements for the safe and hygienic operation of self-service bread slicing machines of Type 1 and Type 2 including: loading, cutting, unloading, cleaning, crumb removal and maintenance.

The intended use of these machines is to cut baked bakery products (e.g. bread) and dry pastry products into slices. This document covers the intended use of the machines by trained personnel as well as by untrained and uninstructed persons (e.g. customers in the self-service area). The intended use for untrained and uninstructed person is only the slicing. All other operations (e.g. maintenance, cleaning) are only intended for trained and instructed personnel.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to bread slicers machines, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).

The following machines are excluded from the scope of this document:

- experimental and testing machines under development by the manufacturer;

- domestic appliances falling under Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU;

- rectangular cutting machines for cutting or sawing of panel size products into small pieces;

- baguette slicers according to EN 14655;

- bread slicers according to EN 13954.

This document is not applicable to bread slicing machines which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document.

The following hazards are not covered by this document:

- hazards due to packaging, handling or transport;

- hazards arising from electromagnetic compatibility issues;

- hazards due to dismantling and disassembling.

The significant hazards covered by this document are described in Annex A.