DANSK DSF/FPREN 13378 PDF

This document applies to pasta presses (see Clause 3), used for continuous pasta production, hereinafter called presses. These machines are usually used in a production line, but can also operate independently. When the machines are part of a line, this standard does not cover the other constituent units of the line and their interfaces. This document specifies the safety requirements for the design, manufacture and information for use for presses and deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4). It deals with the hazards during the following phases of the machines' lifetime: transport, assembly and installation, commissioning, setting and adjusting, operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance, decommissioning, dismantling, disabling and scrapping. The measures for risk reduction are given in Clause 5. This document does not apply to: - machines for household use; - machines fed under manual control and working in cycles (batch machines); - cutting units (see EN 13379). The significant hazards covered by this document are listed in Clause 4. This document is not applicable to machines in its scope which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN.