This International Standard covers electrical mobile motor-operated vacuum cleaners
Equipment Protection Level (EPL) Dc.
This includes dust extractors, for wet suction or dry suction, intended for commercial indoor
use with or without attachments, to collect combustible dust in an explosive dust atmosphere.
The requirements for the construction and testing covered by this document are applied in
addition to the requirements for commercial and industrial vacuum cleaners in
IEC 60335-2-69.
This document supplements and modifies the requirements of IEC 60079-0. Whenever a
requirement of this standard is in conflict with a requirement of IEC 60079-0 the requirement
of this standard will take precedence.