Overview

For many machines, vibration is a significant hazard, that is a hazard which an assessment has identified as requiring a specific action on the part of the manufacturer or supplier. This European Standard gives guidance for the writers of harmonized type-C machinery safety standards on how to deal with vibration where hand-transmitted vibration and/or whole-body vibration is identified as a significant hazard. This European Standard also gives guidance on how to deal with the requirement for declaration of the vibration emission of portable hand-held and/or hand-guided machinery and for mobile machinery. Employers are required to comply with national legislations on the health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the hazard arising from vibration. Employers should assess and reduce those dangers. The duties of machinery suppliers indicated in this standard are complementary to those of employers: by supplying safe work equipment, giving warnings of residual risk and providing information to enable safe use of the machinery they can help employers to reduce the dangers. It is therefore important that type-C safety standards deal adequately with vibration dangers. The following modifications have been made with respect to DIN EN 12786:1999-10: a) adapted to the requirements of Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC; b) Annex B with content of Directive 2006/42/EC relevant to vibration added; c) referenced documents updated. The underlying European Standard EN 12786:2013 has been prepared by CEN/TC 231 "Mechanical vibration and shock", the secretariat of which is held by DIN. The responsible German committee is Committee NA 001-03-07 AA (NALS/VDI C 7) "Schwingungseinwirkung auf den Menschen" ("Human exposure to vibration") at the Acoustics, Noise Control and Vibration Engineering Standards Committee (NALS).

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Responsible national committee

NA 001-03-12 AA - Human exposure to vibration - Hand-transmitted vibration  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 231 - Mechanical vibration and shock