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March 2017: What’s new in health and safety at work standardization?

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New standards publications, new works, registration of new subjects or comity creations… Below is the result of the monitoring that EUROGIP does, as part of its standardization activity in health and safety at work, for the months of January, February and March 2017. Do not hesitate, if you are interested in the subject, to position yourself and participate.

Health and Safety at Work standards published 

  • NF EN ISO 14122-1, 2, 3 et 4 Safety of machinery – Permanent means of access to machinery
    Part 1: Choice of fixed means and general requirements of access
    Part 2: Working platforms and walkways
    Part 3: Stairs, stepladders and guard-rails
    Part 4: Fixed ladders
  • 1st amendment of standard NF ISO 9244 Earth-moving machinery – Machine safety labels – General principles
  • NF EN 16851 Cranes – Light crane systems
  • NF ISO 16900-5 Respiratory protective devices – Methods of test and test equipment – Part 5: Breathing machine, metabolic simulator, RPD headforms and torso, tools and verification tools
  • NF ISO 22262-3 Air quality – Bulk materials – Part 3: Quantitative determination of asbestos by X-ray diffraction method
  • 1st amendment of standard NF EN 15051-2 Workplace exposure – Measurement of the dustiness of bulk materials – Part 2: Rotating drum method
  • NF EN ISO 15025 Protective clothing – Protection against heat and flame – Method of test for limited flame spread
  • NF EN 1496 Review – Personal fall protection equipment – Rescue lifting devices
  • NF EN ISO 374-1 Protective gloves against chemicals and micro-organisms – Part 1: Terminology and performance requirements

New Health and Safety at Work standards work

The new subjects are registered at the CEN or ISO preliminary stage, or submitted to the ISO approval vote. It may be a question of the launching of new work as well as the reactivation of a subject / working group.

Machinery

  • 1st amendment of standard EN 16564 Machines and plants for mining and tooling of natural stone – Safety – Requirements for bridge type sawing/milling machines, included numerical control (NC/CNC) versions
  • 1st amendment of standard EN 15571 Machines and plants for mining and tooling of natural stone – Safety – Requirements for surface finishing machines

Respiratory protective devices

  • ISO 16900-1 and 14 Respiratory protective devices – Methods of test and test equipment
    Part 1  Determination of inward leakage
    Part 14: Measurement of sound level
  • EN 13274-7 Review – Respiratory protective devices – Methods of test – Part 7: Determination of particle filter penetration

Cranes

  • 2nd amendment of standard EN 12999 Cranes – Loader cranes
  • 1st amendment of standard EN 13135 Cranes – Safety – Design – Requirements for equipment
  • 1st amendment of standard EN 13001-3-5 Cranes – General design – Part 3-5: Limit states and proof of competence of forged hooks
  • EN 15011 Review Cranes – Bridge and gantry cranes

Means of production by removing material

  • ISO 10791-10 Test conditions for machining centres – Part 10: Evaluation of thermal distortions

Ergonomics

  • ISO 9241-500 Ergonomics of human-system interaction – Part 500: Ergonomic Principles for the design and evaluation of use environments

Powered industrial trucks

  • ISO 15870 Review – Powered industrial trucks – Safety signs and hazard pictorials – General principles

Industrial trucks

  • EN ISO 24134 Industrial trucks – Additional requirements for automated functions on trucks

Chemical products

  • 1st amendment of standard of parts 1 and 2 of EN 16523 Determination of material resistance to permeation by chemicals
    Part 1: Permeation by liquid chemical under conditions of continuous contact
    Part 2: Permeation by gaseous chemical under conditions of continuous contact

For more information, please write to Saphia Fortassi, fortassi@eurogip.fr

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