scope:

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4 which are relevant to firewood cross-cut sawing machines with manual loading and/or unloading, hereinafter referred to as "machines", designed to cut solid wood when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer including reasonably foreseeable misuse. This document does not apply to: Combined circular sawing machines for firewood with additional units e.g. Log splitting units or Circular saw bench units/mode of operation; Log sawing machines where the saw unit moves to cut the workpiece; machines where the saw blade is capable of tilting; hand-held motor-operated electric tools or any adaptation permitting their use in a different mode, i.e. bench mounting; Machines driven by an internal combustion engine This document is primarily directed at machines which are manufactured after the date of its publication as EN.