scope:

This document deals with all significant hazards", hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4 which are relevant to horizontal beam panel sawing machines where the saw unit of the front cutting line is mounted$ below the workpiece support and which are manually or mechanically loaded and / or unloaded, fitted with: - a side pressure device and / or - the facility for scoring and / or - the facility for post-formed / soft-formed edge pre-cutting and / or - a panel turning device and / or - a pushing out device and / or - pneumatic clamping of the saw blade and / or - a powered panel loading device and / or - a grooving device and / or - additional cutting line(s) inside the machine for longitudinal and / or head cut (before transversal cutting line) and / or - workpiece vacuum clamping as part of a panel turning device or of a panel loading device, hereinafter referred to as "machines" when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen byThe machines are designed for cutting panels consisting of: a) wood based materials such as chipboard, fibreboard, plywood and also these materials where they are covered with plastic/light alloy laminates which can be cut easily; b) solid wood; c) hardened rubber and hardened plastic material; d) non ferrous materials e.g. light alloy; e) gypsum boards, gypsum bounded fibreboards; f) composite boards made from the materials listed above. This document does not deal with specific hazards related to: 1) specific features which differ from the list above; 2) the machining of panels with grooving tools; 3) mechanical unloading of panels; 4) the combination of a single machine being used with any other machine (as part of a line). the manufacturer including reasonably foreseeable misuse.