What is BS EN 453-Safety and hygiene requirements for dough mixers about?
BS EN 453 is a European standard on food processing machinery that discusses the safety and hygiene of dough mixers to ensure protection against machinery hazards.
BS EN 453 specifies safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of dough mixers with rotating bowls of capacity greater than or equal to 5 L1) and less than or equal to 500 L.
These dough mixers are used separately or in a line in the food industry and shops (pastry-making, bakeries, confectionery, etc.) for the manufacturing of dough by mixing flour, water, and other ingredients. These machines can be fed by hand or mechanically.
These machines are sometimes used in other industries (e.g., pharmaceutical industry, chemical industry, printing), but hazards related to these uses are not dealt within BS EN 453.
BS EN 453 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to the transport, installation, adjustment, operation, cleaning, maintenance, dismantling, disassembling, and scrapping of dough mixers, when they are used as intended and under the conditions of misuse which are foreseeable by the manufacturer.
Note: BS EN 453 does not deal with the following machines:
- Planetary mixers
- Continuously fed machines
- Mixers with stationary vertical bowls
- Experimental and testing machines under development by the manufacturer
- Domestic appliances
- Automatic loading and unloading devices
Who is BS EN 453-Safety and hygiene requirements for dough mixers for?
BS EN 453 on the safety and hygiene requirements for dough mixers is useful for:
- Dough mixers manufacturers
- Dough mixers designers
- Dough mixers test personnel
- Dough mixers maintenance personnel
- Health and safety departments
- Quality assurance departments
Why should you use BS EN 453-Safety and hygiene requirements for dough mixers?
Hazards associated with working near or on machinery vary depending on the exact machine used but can include exposure to moving parts (e.g., risk of injuries from entanglement, friction, abrasion, cutting, severing, shearing, stabbing, puncturing, impact, crushing, drawing-in or trapping, etc.)
BS EN 453 provides you with a list of significant hazards, safety, and hygiene requirements and/or measures, mechanical hazards, electrical hazards, protection against earth faults in control circuits, noise reduction, hygiene requirements, verification of safety and hygiene requirements and/or protective measures and much more.
The requirements provided by BS EN 453 assist you in improving the quality and performance of dough mixers and ensure protection to workers against the risk of mechanical hazards, electrical hazards, hazards generated by noise, hazards generated by neglecting hygienic design principles.
With obedience and compliance to BS EN 453, you can enhance the efficacy of the dough mixers and manufacture a standardized product.
What is changed since the last update?
BS EN 453:2014 supersedes EN 453:2000+A1:2009, which is withdrawn. BS EN 453:2014 has made some technical changes compared to the previous editions EN 453:2000+A1:2009. These include:
- Solid guard to protect against dust emission was added
- The table of verification of safety and hygiene requirements was completely revised
