scope:

Specifies the safety requirements for armoured face conveyors and covers, conveyor drive units, return units, line pans, chain assembles, devices for tensioning and locking chains. This European Stanadard does not apply to stage loader ancillaries, armoured face conveyors which form part of mineral bunker systems or operate as spillage conveyors, to haulage systems and guides utilised by extraction machines, to the technical requirements for cable-less remote controls, to compressed air powered machines, or to the interfaces between the elements of the conveyor and other machine installations.