BS EN 15467:2014

This standard BS EN 15467:2014 Food processing machinery. Fish heading and filleting machines. Safety and hygiene requirements is classified in these ICS categories:

• 67.260 Plants and equipment for the food industry

This European Standard specifies the safety and hygiene requirements for the design and construction of automatic fish heading and fish filleting machines, and using knives.

This European Standard applies to machinery and equipment for the heading and filleting of fish in the fish processing industry. This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to fish heading and filleting machines when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4). It deals with the hazards during the following phases of the intended use: assembly and installation, commissioning, setting and adjusting, operation, cleaning, fault finding, and maintenance.

When drawing up this European Standard, the following assumptions were made:

• only trained adult persons operate the machines;

• the machines are used in workplaces with an illumination level that can be reasonably expected in such places.

This European Standard is not applicable to fish heading and filleting machines that are manufactured before the date of its publication as an EN.