Annex IV

Categories of machinery to which one of the procedures referred to in Article 12(3) and (4) must be applied

1. Circular saws (single- or multi-blade) for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics or for working with meat and material with similar physical characteristics, of the following types:

1.1. Sawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a fixed bed or support with manual feed of the workpiece or with a demountable power feed;

1.2. Sawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a manually operated reciprocating saw-bench or carriage;

1.3 Sawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a built-in mechanical feed device for the workpieces, with manual loading and/or unloading;

1.4. Sawing machinery with movable blade(s) during cutting, having mechanical movement of the blade, with manual loading and/or unloading.

2. Hand-fed surface planing machinery for woodworking.

3. Thicknessers for one-side dressing having a built-in mechanical feed device, with manual loading and/or unloading for woodworking.

4. Band-saws with manual loading and/or unloading for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics or for working with meat and material with similar physical characteristics, of the following types:

4.1. Sawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a fixed or reciprocating-movement bed or support for the workpiece;

4.2. Sawing machinery with blade(s) assembled on a carriage with reciprocating motion.

5. Combined machinery of the types referred to in points 1 to 4 and in point 7 for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics.

6. Hand-fed tenoning machinery with several tool holders for woodworking.

7. Hand-fed vertical spindle moulding machinery for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics.

8. Portable chainsaws for woodworking.

9. Presses, including press-brakes, for the cold working of metals, with manual loading and/or unloading, whose movable working parts may have a travel exceeding 6 mm and a speed exceeding 30 mm/s.

10. Injection or compression plastics-moulding machinery with manual loading or unloading.

11. Injection or compression rubber-moulding machinery with manual loading or unloading.

16. Vehicle servicing lifts.

17. Devices for the lifting of persons or of persons and goods involving a hazard of falling from a vertical height of more than three metres.

19. Protective devices designed to detect the presence of persons.

20. Power-operated interlocking movable guards designed to be used as safeguards in machinery referred to in points 9, 10 and 11.

21. Logic units to ensure safety functions.

Article 12

• Compressors (< 350 kW)
• Hand-held concrete-breakers
• Dumpers (< 500 kW)
• Hydraulic or rope excavators (< 500kW)
• Excavator-loaders (< 500 kW)
• Graders (< 500 kW)
• Hydraulic power packs
• Lawn mowers (excluding agricultural and forestry equipment, and multi-purpose devices, the main motorised component of which has an installed power of more than 20 kW)
• Electric lawn trimmers/lawn edge trimmers
• lift trucks, combustion-engine driven, counterbalanced (excluding “other counterbalanced lift trucks” as defined in Annex I, item 36, second indent with a rated capacity of not more than 10 tonnes)
• Loaders (< 500 kW)
• Mobile cranes
• Motor hoes (< 3 kW)
• Power generators (< 400 kW)
• Welding generators

Training Program

1. What the NEW APPROACH EU Directives provide for

• Notified bodies
• Product conformity assessment procedures
• Essential product safety requirements
• Harmonised standards and presumption of conformity of products

2. The Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

• Scope of Application – Machinery, partly completed machinery and assemblies of machinery
• Machinery categories in Annex IV
• Module – Conformity Assessment with internal checks on the manufacture of machinery
• Module – EC Type Examination
• Module – Full quality assurance
• Procedure for partly completed machinery
• EC declaration of conformity of a machine
• Declaration of incorporation of partly completed machinery

3. The new EU Machinery Regulation: what it provides and what it changes

Training Program

1. Essential health and safety requirements relating to the design and construction of machinery

2. Technical Specifications and Harmonised Standards (Type A, B and C)  

3. Instruction manual for machinery and assembly instructions for partly completed machinery

• UNI EN ISO 20607:2019 – Safety of machinery – Instruction manual – General principles for drafting

4. Risk assessment procedure and residual risks  

• UNI EN ISO 12100:2010 – Safety of machinery – General principles for design – Risk assessment and risk reduction
• UNI ISO/TR 14121-2:2013 – Safety of machinery – Risk assessment – Part 2: Practical guidance and examples of methods
• CEN ISO/TR 22100-1:2021 – Safety of machinery – Relationship with ISO 12100 – Part 1: How ISO 12100 relates to type-B and type-C standards
• EN ISO 13849-1:2023 – Safety of machinery – Safety-related parts of control systems – Part 1: General principles for design
• EN ISO 13849-2:2013 – Safety of machinery – Safety-related parts of control systems – Part 2: Validation
• CEI EN IEC 62061 – Safety of machinery – Functional safety of safety-related control systems
• CEI EN 60204-1 – Safety of machinery – Electrical equipment of machines
• CEI EN 60204-32 – Safety of machinery – Electrical equipment of machines – Part 32: Requirements for hoisting machines
• CEI EN IEC 61439-1 – Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies (LV switchgear) – Part 1: General rules
• CEI EN IEC 61439-2 – Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies (LV switchgear) – Part 2: Power switchgear
• UNI EN ISO 13850:2015 – Safety of machinery – Emergency stop function – Principles for design
• UNI EN ISO 4413:2012 – Hydraulics – General rules and safety requirements for systems and their components
• UNI EN ISO 14120:2015 – Safety of machinery – Guards – General requirements for the design and construction of fixed and movable guards
• UNI EN ISO 14119:2013 – Safety of machinery – Interlocking devices associated with guards – Principles for design and selection
• ISO/TS 19837:2018 – Safety of machinery – Trapped key interlocking devices – Principles for design and selection
• UNI EN ISO 7010:2023 – Safety signs – Recorded safety signals

5. Environmental noise emission of machines and phonometric report