BS EN 1034-27:2012

This standard BS EN 1034-27:2012 Safety of machinery. Safety requirements for the design and construction of paper making and finishing machines is classified in these ICS categories:

• 85.100 Equipment for the paper industry

This European Standard applies to roll handling systems for use in paper finishing and applies together with EN 1034-1:2000+A1:2010. It deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events relevant to roll handling systems, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).

This European Standard does not apply to:

• machine reel handling systems;

• stacker trucks, industrial trucks and driverless industrial trucks;

• separate storage systems with cranes and high bay storage systems;

• portable devices for moving rolls.

This European Standard is not applicable to roll handling systems which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CEN.