This standard specifies the safety requirements for the design and manufacture of pre-formed rigid container packaging machinery and the information that should be made available to the user of these machines. All the significant hazards (see clause 4) arising from the machines included in this part of the standard are covered except for hazards associated with ancillary equipment for evacuating gases, cooling/refrigeration equipment associated with
packaging machines, steam services supplying packaging machines, substances being filled (see annex C for guidance), hygiene principles (see annex D for guidance) and substances for cleaning/sterilising (see annex E for guidance).
The following machines are included:
Filling machines (other than cask, keg and barrel filling machines)
Capping, closing and sealing/seaming machines
Container cleaning machines (other than cask, keg and barrel cleaning
machines)
In-line and rotary rinsing and air cleaning machines
Labelling, decorating, coding and marking machines
Decapping/unscrewing machines
Inspection and ejection machines
Machines that apply wiring to secure stoppers in bottles
Machines which rinse, inspect, fill, seal and label containers
Keg and cask turning, pushing, cleaning and filling machines (but not multi-lane
plants)
Packing, unpacking and unscrambling machines
Unpressurised pasteurisers and back-cooling machines
Vertical and horizontal sterilising machines
For information, schematic drawings showing typical combinations of rigid container packaging machines for beverages are included (see Figures 1, 2 and 3).
The following machines are not included:
Aerosol Filling and Sealing
Multi-lane Kegging plants
Conveyor systems which link packaging machines (they are dealt with by prEN 617, prEN 618, prEN 619, prEN 620 and prEN 741)
Before this standard is used a hazard identification and risk assessment shall be carried out to check that the hazar (...abbreviated)
Die Sicherheitsanforderungen, die bei der Herstellung von Verpackungsmaschinen für vorgefertigte formstabile Packmittel einzuhalten sind, um die Sicherheitsziele der EG-Richtlinien zu erfüllen, sind festgelegt. Gefährdungen, die durch Laser oder sonstige Strahlung sowie durch Hygieneaspekte gegeben sind, werden nicht behandelt.