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BS EN ISO 12643-4:2023

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Graphic technology. Safety requirements for graphic technology equipment and systems – Converting equipment and systems

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BSI 2023 94
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This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events relevant to converting equipment and systems used in the corrugated board, package printing, converting and graphic technology industries (see Clause 5), when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. This document is applicable to converting equipment not covered by other parts of ISO 12643. This document is not applicable to the machinery or machinery components manufactured before the date of its publication.

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20 5.1 General
5.2 Machines used primarily in a converting operation
5.3 Machines used in both printing and converting processes
21 6.1 All machines
6.1.1 Emergency stop
6.1.2 Control zones with stop/safe pushbuttons
22 6.1.3 Steam pipes
6.2 Unwinding stations
6.2.1 General
6.2.2 Chucking cones and lifting arms
6.2.3 Braking systems
6.3 Splicers
6.3.1 Guarding hazard points
23 6.3.2 Dancer roller
6.3.3 Splicers
24 6.3.4 Knife
6.3.5 Pneumatic and hydraulic control systems
6.3.6 Frame edges
6.3.7 Splicers in elevated positions
6.3.8 Warning lights
6.4 Preheater
6.4.1 In-running nips
25 6.4.2 In-running nips between preheating cylinder and cross beams
6.4.3 Wrap roller and rotating arms
26 6.4.4 Hot surfaces
6.4.5 Walkways
6.5 Single facer
6.5.1 In-running nips
27 6.5.2 Corrugating rollers
6.5.3 Hazard points during roller change
6.5.4 In-running nip between pressure roller or pressing belt and corrugating roller
28 6.5.5 Pressing belt breakage
6.5.6 Walkway
6.5.7 In-running nips between glue rollers
29 6.5.8 Hazard points between movable gluing unit and fixed machine parts
6.5.9 Moveable glue units
30 6.5.10 Inclined belt conveyor
31 6.5.11 In-running nips between pulleys and fixed machine parts
6.5.12 Steam pipes
6.5.13 Warning signs
6.5.14 Noise enclosures
6.6 Bridge
6.6.1 Slots
6.6.2 Fall-off protection
6.6.3 Access stairs
32 6.6.4 Passage height underneath the bridge
6.7 Braking and web aligning systems
6.8 Gluing machine
6.8.1 Steps and handles
6.8.2 Hazard points
6.8.3 Pressing device
6.9 Heating and pulling section
6.9.1 In-running nips
33 6.9.2 Hazard points
6.9.3 Heating plates
6.9.4 Preventing the weighting device from falling
6.9.5 Web threading in the heating section
35 6.10 Transition point from gluing machine to heating and pulling section
6.11 Rotary shear unit
6.11.1 Rotary shear
6.11.2 Knife driving shaft
6.11.3 Guarding a non-powered movement of the rotary shear
6.11.4 Waste removal
6.12 Pulling unit
36 6.13 Slitter-scorer units
6.13.1 Automatic positioning
6.13.2 Movement of slitting and scoring units under hold‑to‑run control
6.14 Web diverter
37 6.15 Cut-off
6.16 Stacker devices
6.16.1 Whole-body access
38 6.16.2 Guarding of downstackers
40 6.16.3 Maintenance and inspection
41 6.16.4 Guarding of upstackers
42 6.16.5 Roller conveyors
7.1 Entire machine
7.1.1 Emergency stop
7.1.2 Power-driven shafts
7.1.3 Power-driven format setting
43 7.1.4 Reaching of hazard points between format-limiting parts
7.2 Feeder
7.3 Folding section
7.3.1 Roller tracks
44 7.3.2 Folding hooks
45 7.4 Gluing section
7.5 Folding belts
46 7.6 Pressure rollers
7.6.1 In-running nips between pressure rollers in the area between machine frame and format-limiting parts
7.6.2 In-running nips between pressure rollers in the area between format-limiting parts
47 7.7 Ejection module
7.8 Pressing and gathering device (pressing band)
7.8.1 Pulleys
7.8.2 Pressure rollers
48 8.1 Feeding and transfer bridge
8.2 All pre-feeders with pile carrier plate
8.2.1 Opening for pallet movement
49 8.2.2 Guarding on feeding and transfer bridges
8.2.3 Rotating shafts
8.2.4 Guarding hazards created by automatic format setting
8.2.5 Guarding hazards when moving pre-feeder
8.3 Pre-feeder with pile turner
8.3.1 Opening for pallet movement
50 8.3.2 Guarding on feeding and transfer bridge
8.3.3 Guarding transport belts
8.3.4 Guarding hazards created by automatic format setting
8.3.5 Guarding hazards when moving pre-feeder
52 9.1 Entire machine
9.1.1 Moving units together
53 9.1.2 Separating units
9.1.3 Rotary tools on separated units
9.1.4 Travel wheels
9.2 Feeding unit
9.2.1 Slide-in rollers
9.2.2 Side aligning devices
9.2.3 Hopper side lays
9.2.4 Feed rollers
54 9.3 Printing unit
9.3.1 Rotating rollers and drive elements
9.3.2 Separated units
55 9.3.3 Guarding of rollers
9.4 Slitter-scorer unit, rotary die-cutter
9.4.1 Automatic format setting
9.4.2 Waste removal
9.4.3 Waste discharge conveyor belts
56 9.5 Separators
9.6 Folding unit (folding box gluer)
9.7 Taping unit
9.8 Stitching unit
10.1 Entire machine
10.1.1 Tool
10.1.2 Automatic die-cutting devices
57 10.2 Punching section
10.2.1 Hazard points between sheet feeding grippers and feeding table
10.2.2 Die-cutting tools
10.3 Breaking section
10.4 Blank separating section, blank delivery
10.4.1 Guarding sheet gripper from unintentional hand access
10.4.2 Area below blank separating section, blank delivery
66 10.5 Trimming and delivery of gripper edge
12.1 Ply reels
12.2 In-running nip between winding belt and winding mandrel
68 12.3 In-running nips on shaft bearings
12.4 In-running nips
69 12.5 Tube cutting and sawing section
12.6 Tube transfer
13.1 Emergency stop device
13.2 Interlocks
13.2.1 Interlocking with guard locking
70 13.2.2 Requirements regarding the unlocking of interlocking guards with guard locking
13.3 Printing unit guarding
71 13.4 Form cutting section
13.5 Driven guide rollers
13.5.1 Guarding in-running nips
13.5.2 Delivery side guards
13.6 Window cutting section
13.7 Scraper gluing unit
13.8 Separating cutting section
13.9 Bottom flap folding section
72 13.10 Transport rolls
13.11 Staggering wheel
13.11.1 Guarding staggering wheel hazards
13.11.2 Guarding in-running nips between paper guide supports and staggering wheel
13.12 Roller gluing unit
13.12.1 Guarding in-running nips
13.12.2 Feeding aperture
73 13.13 Separation roller before aligner section
74 13.14 Seal flap folding section
13.15 Separating disc delivery
13.16 Starting the machine with interlocking guards open
75 14.1 Emergency stop devices
14.2 Starting the machine with interlocking guards open
14.3 Star-type unwinding (Turret unwinding)
76 14.4 Longitudinal folding section
14.5 Product inspection station
14.6 Ejection
14.7 Packing station
82 17.1 General
17.2 Corrugated board machinery
17.2.1 Threading paper web
17.2.2 Residual risks relating to hot parts
17.2.3 Hearing protection
17.2.4 Tubes used for material reels
17.2.5 Residual risks on conveyor belts
17.2.6 Warning for hot surfaces
17.2.7 Instructions for use of personal protection equipment when changing knives
17.2.8 Instructions for mechanical device on downstackers and upstackers
83 17.2.9 In-line machines
17.2.10 Instructions for personal protection equipment when working with hot surfaces
17.3 Folding box gluers
17.4 Machines for the production of envelopes
17.4.1 General
17.4.2 Dosing and ductor rollers
17.5 Machines for the production of handkerchiefs
17.5.1 Fault-finding and trouble-shooting by means of stroboscopes
17.5.2 Hot parts
84 17.6 Noise
BS EN ISO 12643-4:2023
$215.11