This document specifies the safety requirements and measures for single spindle vertical moulding machines (defined in 3.1), capable of continuous production use and hereinafter referred to also as “machines”.


The machines are designed to cut solid wood and material with similar physical characteristics to wood.


This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Annex A, relevant to the machines when they are operated, adjusted and maintained as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer including reasonably foreseeable misuse. Transport, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping phases have also been taken into account.


This document is also applicable to machines fitted with one or more of the following devices/additional working units, whose hazards have been dealt with:


a)       device to adjust the arbor vertically;


b)       device to tilt the arbor;


c)