BS EN 50636-2-91:2014 - Page 2

Household and similar electrical appliances. Safety. Particular requirements for walk-behind and hand-held lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers | Status: Current, Under review

1 Scope This clause of Part 1 is replaced by the following. This European Standard specifies safety requirements and their verification for the design and construction of electric powered walk-behind and hand-held lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers, with cutting element(s) of non-metallic filament line or freely pivoting non-metallic cutter(s), with a kinetic energy of not more than 10 J each, used by a standing operator for cutting grass, their rated voltage being not more than 250 V for a.c. or 75 V d.c..

NOTE 101 The method of calculating the kinetic energy for the purposes of this standard is given in 22.103.

In this European Standard, hand-held and walk-behind lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers are referred to collectively as machine(s). This European Standard does not apply to

• – scissor type or lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers with cutting means other than those described above;
• – lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers with collecting devices;
• – self-propelled lawn trimmers or lawn edge trimmers;

EMC and environmental aspects, except noise, have not been considered in this European Standard. This European Standard does not apply to chargers as covered by EN 60335‑2‑29. This European Standard does not apply to batteries as covered by EN 62133. This European Standard deals with all the significant hazards presented by hand-held and walk- behind lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable.