What is BS EN 454-Safety and hygiene requirements of planetary mixers about?
BS EN 454 is a European standard on food processing machinery that discusses the safety and hygiene of planetary mixers to ensure protection against the risk of hazards.
BS EN 454 specifies safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of fixed bowl planetary mixers with a tool having a planetary movement by using two parallel axes. The capacity of the bowl is greater than or equal to 5 L1) and less than or equal to 200 L.
These planetary mixers are used separately in the food industry and shops (catering, bakery, pizza, pastry, and confectionery industry) for mixing, kneading, and emulsifying/whipping food products (e.g., cocoa, flour, sugar, oils and fat, eggs, and other ingredients). These machines are fed by hand and sometimes during operation without stopping the machine.
Processing is carried out in cycles of variable duration. It can be either manually or automatically controlled, in individual cycles or on a cycle repeat basis, etc.
BS EN 454 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to the transport, installation, adjustment, operation, cleaning, maintenance, dismantling, disassembling, and scrapping of planetary mixers, when they are used as intended and under the conditions of misuse which are foreseeable by the manufacturer.
Note: BS EN 454 does not deal with the following machines:
- Catering attachment for planetary mixers
- Continuously fed machines
- Dough mixers
- Whipping mixers which contain no parallel axes
- Stirring machines
- Experimental and testing machines under development by the manufacturers
- Machines used in other industries, for example: - meat industry, candy industry, pharmaceutical industry, chemical industry
- Domestic appliances
Who is BS EN 454-Safety and hygiene requirements of planetary mixers for?
BS EN 454 on the safety and hygiene requirements of planetary mixers is useful for:
- Planetary mixers manufacturers
- Planetary mixers designers
- Planetary mixers test personnel
- Planetary mixers maintenance personnel
- Health and safety departments
Why should you use BS EN 454-Safety and hygiene requirements of planetary mixers?
The safety requirements are those requirements that are defined for the purpose of risk reduction. Like any other requirements, they may at first be specified at a high level, for example, simply as the need for the reduction of a given risk.
BS EN 454 provides you with a list of significant hazards, safety, and hygiene requirements and/or measures, mechanical hazards, electrical hazards, safety requirements related to electromagnetic phenomena, protection against electric shock, verification of safety and hygiene requirements and/or protective measures and much more.
The requirements provided by BS EN 454 assist you in improving the quality and performance of planetary mixers and ensure protection to workers against the risk of mechanical hazards, electrical hazards, hazards generated by neglecting hygienic design principles, hazards generated by neglecting ergonomic principles.
With obedience and compliance to BS EN 12043, you can enhance the efficacy of the planetary mixers and manufacture a standardized product.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 454:2014 supersedes EN 454:2000+A1:2009, which is withdrawn. BS EN 454:2014 has made some technical changes compared to the previous editions EN 454:2000+A1:2009. These include:
- Modification of the numbers of classes of machines
- A solid guard to protect against dust emission was added. Safety dimensions for the guard were précised
- Control of the position of the bowl in working position for the Class 1
- The table of verification of safety and hygiene requirements was completely revised
