Machines and plants for the manufacture, treatment and processing of hollow glass - Safety requirements - Part 3: IS machines

This document specifies the appropriate technical measures to eliminate or reduce risks arising from significant hazards during setting, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of an IS machine as a glass forming machine.This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, or hazardous events, except for commissioning, installation, dismantling, and disposal, when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.It applies to the design and construction of IS machines, including the gob distributor and machine conveyor.This document does not deal with gob feeders (see EN 13042-1:2007+A1:2009) and handling machines for feeding (see EN 13042-2:2004+A1:2009) which are self-standing machines used for the delivery of portions of melted glass to hollow glass forming machines like glass presses (see EN 13042-5:2003+A1:2009).This document is not applicable to the machinery or machinery components manufactured before the date of its publication.