DIN EN ISO 12643-1:2024-11

This standard contains safety requirements. This standard defines relevant requirements set out in Annex I of EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, relating to machines which were placed on the European Economic Area (EEA) market for the first time, with the intent of simplifying the means of proving conformity with these requirements. This document provides safety specifications for the design and construction of new equipment used in prepress systems, printing press systems, binding and finishing systems, converting systems, corrugated board manufacturing systems and stand‑alone platen presses. It is applicable to equipment used in stand-alone mode, or in combination with other machines, including ancillary equipment, in which all the machine actuators (for example, drives) of the equipment are controlled by the same control system. The requirements given in this document are applicable to the equipment covered by ISO 12643 (all parts), unless otherwise noted. This document is intended to be used in conjunction with the applicable part of ISO 12643 that contains additional requirements specific to a particular type of equipment. This document addresses recognized significant hazards specific to equipment and systems in the following areas: - mechanical; - electrical; - slipping, tripping, falling; - ergonomics; - noise; - UV and laser radiation; - fire and explosion; - thermal; - substances and material used for processing; - failure, malfunction of control system; - other types of emissions (for example, ozone, ink mist, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), etcetera). This document is not applicable to: - equipment manufactured before the date of its publication; - ordinary office equipment for digital printing and paper processing, such as digital printers, copiers, sorters, binders and staplers, which is intended for use outside the printing and paper industry; - winder-slitters and sheeters in paper finishing (sheeters with unwinders); - office-type collating machines equipped with friction feeders; - mail processing machines; - machines used for filling packages (such as machines for shaping, filling, and closing the package); and - textile printing presses. The safety principles established in this document can also be applicable to the design of equipment within areas of technology that are not specified in ISO 12643 (all parts). This standard differs from DIN EN 1010-1:2011-06 as follows: a) in 5.3.2 the requirements for guards (fixed guards with hinges, inclusion of examples of fastening devices, such as rotary clamping closures, adaptation to ISO 14120:2015) have been revised; b) in 5.3.5 requirements for interlocks on movable guards have been added; c) in 5.3.6 the requirements for hold-to-run controls have been revised (the signal release for starting in hold-to-run mode can be effected by one single contact if the further processing of signals is done in accordance with PL d of ISO 13849-1:2023); d) in 5.3.8 the requirements for reel unwinding devices, rewinding devices and reel transport systems have been revised (monitoring of the chucking cones, monitoring of the circumferential speed with regard to overwinding, area protection also for manual reel loading with automatic reel change, protective devices at rewinding devices with manual or automatic reel change); e) in 5.3.10 the requirements for pile carrier movements at feeders and deliveries have been revised, area protection is required for lifting heights greater than 1 800 mm and for automatic lifting movements of the pile carrier; f) in 5.4.2 the requirements for explosion protection have been revised and those for fire protection have been supplemented; g) in 5.4.4.2.5 requirements for hinged platforms have been supplemented; h) in 5.4.4.2.6 requirements for mobile hand-operated platforms have been supplemented; i) in 5.4.8.2 the requirements for UV radiation to the cited EN 12198-1:2000+A1:2008 have been adapted: there is no longer a distinction between UVA and UVB/UVC, there is a reference to effective UV radiation; j) a new subclause, 5.4.10, about doctor blades has been added; k) in 5.4.16.1 the requirements for power-driven travel of movable components (for example, guards) have been made more precise; l) in 5.4.16.3 requirements for pile turners and reel turners have been included; m) in 5.7.2 information that touch sensitive control devices shall not be used for initiating safety functions has been clarified; n) in 5.7.2.5.1 requirements for stopping in an emergency (emergency stop) have been revised; o) in 5.7.6 the requirements of ESPDs to IEC 61496-1:2020 and IEC 61496-2:2020 have been adapted; likewise, the heights of the light beams for a 3-beam solution have been adapted; p) in 5.8 the requirements for fixed and portable control stations have been adapted; q) in 5.10 the requirements for safety-related control systems have been revised, and an overview table of the performance levels defined in the document has been inserted; r) in 7.2 requirements for optional personnel warning lights have been included; s) in 8.3.1 the requirements for the instruction handbook have been revised; t) a normative Annex A on area-light warning systems has been added; u) the list of significant hazards has been moved to Annex B; v) the content of the former Annex B (Audible warning systems) has been moved to the normative text (subclause 7.2) w) the noise comparison values in Annex D have been updated and supplemented; x) content on instruction handbook, formerly in Annex D, has been moved to Annex E; y) the former Annex A on zone definition (general classification of hazardous areas with the occurrence of a hazardous explosive atmosphere) has been moved to Annex F and revised; z) a normative Annex G on the relationship between the classification of hazardous areas and the use of explosion-protected equipment in these areas has been added. This document (DIN EN ISO 12643-1:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 "Graphic Technology" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 198 "Printing and paper machinery - Safety", the secretariat of which is held by DIN. The national interests during preparation were represented by Working Committee NA 060-23-01 AA "Druck- und Papierverarbeitungsmaschinen" ("Printing and paper converting machines") of Section "Printing and paper machinery" at DIN Standards Committee Mechanical Engineering (NAM). Representatives of manufacturers of printing machines, and of the employers' liability insurance association Energie Textil Elektro Medienerzeugnisse (BG ETEM) contributed to this standard.