This document 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, as
defined in 3.1 and hereinafter referred to as “machines”.
This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Annex A,
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.