What is ISO 19085-2- Horizontal beam panel circular sawing machines about?
ISO 19085-2 gives the safety requirements and measures for horizontal beam panel circular sawing machines with the saw carriage of the front cutting line mounted below the workpiece support, which are manually and/or powered loaded and manually unloaded, capable of continuous production use, and hereinafter referred to as “machines”.
ISO 19085-2 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events as relevant to the machines, when operated, adjusted, and maintained as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer including reasonably foreseeable misuse. Also, transport, assembly, dismantling, disabling, and scrapping phases have been taken into account.
The machines are designed for cutting panels consisting of:
- Solid wood
- Material with similar physical characteristics to wood
- Gypsum boards, gypsum bounded fibreboards
- Composite materials, with a core consisting of e.g. polyurethane or mineral material, laminated with light-alloy
- Cardboard
- Foamboard
- Matrix engineered mineral boards, silicate boards
- Polymer‐matrix composite materials and reinforced thermoplastic/thermoset/elastomeric materials
- Aluminium light alloy plates with a maximum thickness of 10 mm
- Composite boards made from the materials listed above
Note 1: ISO 19085-2 is not applicable to:
- Machines intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres
- Machines manufactured prior to the date of its publication
Note 2: ISO 19085-2 does not deal with hazards related to:
- Specific features different from those listed above
- The machining of panels with milling tools for grooving
- Powered unloading of panels
- The rear half of the split pressure beam on the front cutting line
- The combination of a single machine being used with any other machine
Who is ISO 19085-2- Horizontal beam panel circular sawing machines for?
ISO 19085-2 on horizontal beam panel circular sawing machines is beneficial for:
- Machine woodworkers, builders, masons, artisans, and laborers
- Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Wood craftsmen
- Carpenters
- Structural engineers
- Machine manufacturers
Why should you use ISO 19085-2- Horizontal beam panel circular sawing machines?
Horizontal beam panel saws are used to cut panels into pieces and they can cut multiple panels at the same time.
ISO 19085-2 is of relevance, in particular, for the following stakeholder groups representing the market players with regard to machinery safety:
- Machine manufacturers (small, medium, and large enterprises)
- Health and safety bodies (regulators, accident prevention organizations, market surveillance, etc.)
ISO 19085-2 provides technical safety requirements for the design and construction of woodworking machinery. ISO 19085-2 concerns designers, manufacturers, suppliers, and importers of the machines. ISO 19085-2 also includes a list of items to be provided to the user by the manufacturer.
ISO 19085-2 is applicable to machines fitted with one or more of the following devices/additional working units, whose hazards have been dealt with:
- Side pressure device
- Device for powered unloading
- Unit for scoring
- Unit for post-formed/soft-formed edge pre-cutting
- Panel turning device
- Front side turntable
- Pushing out device
- Pneumatic clamping of the saw blade
- Powered panel-loading device
- Device for grooving by a milling tool
- One or more additional cutting lines inside the machine for longitudinal and/or head cut
- Workpiece vacuum clamping as part of a front side turntable or of a panel-loading device
- Panel pusher
- Independent panel pushers
- Additional panel pushers mounted on the panel pusher carriage
- Additional panel pusher with the integrated label printer device
- Lifting platform
- Device for automatic loading of thin panels
- Device for baseboard unloading by gravity
- Device for baseboard powered unloading
- Device for panel unloading in limited space condition
- Loading or pre-loading roller conveyors
- Pressure beam with additional flaps to increase dust extraction efficiency
- Saw blade cooling system by air or water-air or oil-air
- Vibrating conveyor with/without trimming unit for offcuts management
- Predisposition for top loading/unloading by an external system directly on the machine table and/or on the machine preloading roller conveyor and/or on the machine lifting table
Overall, ISO 19085-2 is helpful as it assists the user with horizontal beam panel circular sawing machines. The perfect horizontal beam saw machines can significantly enhance your efficiency and productivity. They make cutting and trimming wood extremely easy and time-saving, which can definitely help in your business.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN ISO 19085-2:2021 supersedes BS EN ISO 190852:2017, which is withdrawn. BS EN ISO 19085-2:2021 cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 190852:2017), which has been technically revised. The main changes compared to the previous edition are as follows:
- The scope now specifies that machines are intended for continuous production use, and other additional working units have been added, as well as special workable materials and an exclusion
- The list of significant hazards has been moved to new Annex A
- The structure has been simplified, in particular in 5.6
- Machines without panel pushers have been included and fully covered in 5.6.4
- Other loading devices have been considered in 5.6.9.1, 5.6.9.2, and new subclause 5.6.9.3.
