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Machinery Safety Directive

Annex IV

Types of machinery and safety components subject to special attestation procedures under Annex IV of the Machinery Safety Directive

Under Annex IV of the Machinery Safety Directive the following Machinery must be subjected to special 'Attestation Procedure' (e.g. assessment by a Notified Body) in order to carry a valid CE Mark.

A. Machinery

1. Circular saws (single or multi-blade) for working with wood and analogous materials and meat and analogous materials, including:
   1. 1.1 Sawing machines with a fixed tool during operation, having a fixed bed with manual feed of the 'workpiece' or with a demountable power feed;
   2. 1.2 Sawing machines with fixed tool during operation, having a manually operated reciprocating saw-bench or carriage;
   3. 1.3 Sawing machines with fixed tool during operation, having a built-in mechanical feed device for the 'workpieces', and with manual loading and / or unloading;
   4. 1.4 Sawing machines with movable tool during operation, with a mechanical feed device and manual loading and/or unloading.
2. Hand-fed surface planing machines for woodworking.
3. Thicknessers for one-side dressing with manual loading and/or unloading for woodworking.
4. Band-saws with a fixed or mobile bed and band-saws with a mobile carriage, with manual loading and/or unloading, for working with wood and analogous materials and for working with meat and analogous materials.
5. Combined machines of the types referred to in 1 to 4 and 7 for working with wood and analogous materials.
6. Hand-fed tenoning machines with several tool holders for woodworking.
7. Hand-fed vertical spindle moulding machines for working with wood and analogous materials.
8. Portable chain saws for woodworking.
9. Presses, including press-brakes, for the cold working of metals, with manual loading and/or unloading, whose movable working parts may have a travel exceeding 6mm and a speed exceeding 30 mm/s.
10. Injection or compression plastics-moulding machines with manual loading or unloading.
11. Injection or compression rubber-moulding machines with manual loading or unloading.
12. Machinery for underground working of the following types: machinery on rails: locomotives and brake-vans; hydraulic-powered roof supports; internal combustion engines to be fitted to machinery for underground working.
13. Manually-loaded trucks for the collection of household refuse incorporating a compression mechanism.
14. Guards and detachable transmission shafts with universal joints.
15. Vehicles servicing lifts.
16. Devices for the lifting of persons involving a risk of falling from a vertical height of more than three metres.
17. Machines for the manufacture of pyrotechnics.

B. Safety components

1. Electro-sensitive devices designed specifically to detect persons in order to ensure their safety (non-material barriers, sensor mats, electromagnetic detectors, etc.).
2. Logic units which ensure the safety functions of bi-manual controls.
3. Automatic movable screens to protect the presses referred to in 9, 10 and 11.
4. Roll-over protection structures (ROPS).
5. Falling-object protective structures (FOPS).

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