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This standard specifies the technical safety requirements and protective measures to be adopted by persons undertaking the design, construction and supply (including installation and dismantling, with arrangements for transport and maintenance) of machines for cold working of metal with geometrically-defined cutting edge tools (milling). This international standard takes account of intended use, including reasonably foreseeable misuse, maintenance, cleaning, and setting operations. It specifies access conditions to operators positions and manual load/unload stations. It presumes accessibility to the machine from all directions. It describes means to reduce risks to operators and other exposed persons. This standard includes the following machines but is not limited to these: a) Milling machines including machines capable of performing boring operations, b) Numerical controlled milling machines, milling- and machining centres, c) Transfer and special purpose machines, which are designed to process only a pre-specified metal or analogous material workpiece, or limited family of similar workpieces by means of a predetermined sequence of machining operations and process parameters. This international standard also applies to workpiece transfer devices including transport devices for loading/unloading when they form an integral part of the machine. This international standard deals with significant hazards relevant to milling machines when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer (see clause 4). Hazards arising from other metal working processes (e.g. grinding, turning, friction welding, forming, EDM, laser processing) are covered by other standards (see Bibliography). This international standard applies to machines which are manufactured after its date of publication.