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This part of ISO 11680 specifies safety requirements and their verification for the design and construction of portable hand-held pole-mounted powered pruners having an integral combustion engine as a power unit and using a drive shaft, to transmit power to the cutting attachment. The cutting attachments covered are saw chains, reciprocating and circular saw blades. This standard describes methods for the elimination or reduction of hazards arising from their use. In addition it specifies the type of information on safe working practices to be provided by the manufacturer. This document deals with all significant hazards hazardous situations or hazardous events with the exception of electric shock related to overhead electric lines apart from warnings and advice for instruction handbook contents, relevant to these machines, when they are used as intended and under condition of reasonably foreseeable misuse. NOTE See Annex A for list of significant hazards. This part of ISO 11680 applies primarily to portable hand-held pole-mounted powered pruners which are manufactured after the date of issue of the standard.