Woodworking machines - Safety - Part 3: Numerically controlled (NC/CNC) boring and routing machines
Abstract
This document gives the safety requirements and measures for numerically controlled (NC/CNC) boring machines, NC/CNC routing machines and NC/CNC boring and routing machines (as defined in 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4), capable of continuous production use, altogether referred to as "machines". This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, listed in Annex A, relevant to the machines when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable. Also, transport, assembly, adjustment, maintenance, dismantling, disabling and scrapping phases have been taken into account. This document is also applicable to machines fitted with one or more of the following devices or additional working units, whose hazards have been dealt with: - additional working units for sawing, sanding, assembling or dowel inserting; - fixed or movable workpiece support; - mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic or vacuum workpiece clamping; - automatic tool change devices. It is also applicable to machines fitted with edge-banding equipment, even if the specific hazards of the edge-banding equipment have not been dealt with. NOTE For the risk assessment needed for the edge-banding equipment, ISO 19085-17 [1] can be useful. Machines covered in this document are designed for workpieces consisting of: - solid wood; - material with similar physical characteristics to wood (see ISO 19085-1:2026, 3.2); - gypsum boards, gypsum bounded fibreboards, cardboard; - matrix engineered mineral boards, silicate boards; - composite materials with core consisting of polyurethane or mineral material laminated with light alloy; - polymer-matrix composite materials and reinforced thermoplastic/thermoset/elastomeric materials; - aluminium light alloy, brass, bronze and copper profiles; - aluminium light alloy, brass, bronze, copper and lead plates with a maximum thickness of 10 mm; - composite boards made from the materials listed above. This document does not deal with specific hazards related to: - use of grinding wheels; - ejection through openings guarded by curtains on machines where the height of the opening in the enclosure above the workpiece support exceeds 700 mm; - ejection due to failure of milling tools with a cutting circle diameter equal to or greater than 16 mm and sawing tools not conforming to EN 847-1:2017 and EN 847-2:2017; - the combination of a single machine being used with other machines (as a part of a line); - integrated workpiece loading/unloading systems (e.g. robots). This document is not applicable to: - machines intended for use in potentially explosive atmosphere; - machines manufactured prior to its publication.
Begin
2025-07-15
WI
00142221
Planned document number
DIN EN ISO 19085-3
Project number
06004581
Responsible national committee
NA 060-06-01 AA - Woodworking machines - Safety
Responsible european committee
CEN/TC 142 - Woodworking machines - Safety
Responsible international committee
ISO/TC 39/SC 4/WG 1 - Common requirements and safety of integrated fed machines
