EN 1012-1:2010

Compressors and vacuum pumps - Safety requirements - Part 1: Air compressors

Publication date:   Aug 17, 2011

General information

60.60 Standard published   Sep 22, 2010

CEN

CEN/TC 232 Compressors, vacuum pumps and their systems

European Norm

23.080   Pumps | 23.140   Compressors and pneumatic machines | 23.160   Vacuum technology

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Scope

This part of EN 1012 is applicable to compressors and compressor units having an operating pressure greater than 0,5 bar and designed to compress air, nitrogen or inert gases. This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the design, installation, operation, maintenance, dismantling and disposal of compressors and compressor units, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).
This part of EN 1012 includes under the general term compressor units those machines which comprise:
- the compressor;
- a drive system;
- any component or device which is necessary for operation.
This part also covers the general requirements relating to process gas compressors; for specific requirements see prEN 1012-3 which applies.
This part covers compressors driven by any power media, including battery powered and which are fitted in or used with motor vehicles.
This part of EN 1012 does not cover requirements for compressors used in potentially explosive atmospheres.
This part of EN 1012 is not applicable to compressors which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CEN.

Related legislation

Legislation related to this standard

98/37/EC

Machinery

2006/42/EC

Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast)

Harmonized/Supporting

Life cycle

PREVIOUSLY

WITHDRAWN
EN 1012-1:1996

NOW

PUBLISHED
EN 1012-1:2010
60.60 Standard published
Sep 22, 2010

REVISED BY

IN_DEVELOPMENT
prEN ISO 18623-1