DIN EN 15061:2009-05

This European Standard describes the health and safety requirements of automated lines (see 3.7 and 3.13) used for strip processing. It describes the foreseeable, significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events arising from lines and from particular machines integrated to form the line; it does not describe the fully health and safety requirements for each particular machine. It indicates the possible preventative measures for avoiding or reducing the risks. This standard assumes that the installations are operated and maintained by adequately trained competent personnel. Manual intervention for setting, adjustment and maintenance is accepted as part of the normal use. This standard applies to automated lines for processing of metal strip: from take-over point of the entry section (terminal equipment) through the process (processing and terminal equipment like, e. g., pickling, cleaning/degreasing, hot dipping, electro plating, tension levelling/scale breaking, organic coating and chemical post-treating) up to the take-over point of the exit section or interface to other lines (terminal equipment).