60.60 Standard published May 20, 2026
CEN
CEN/TC 151 Construction equipment and building material machines - Safety
European Norm
53.100 Earth-moving machinery
Published
This document is applicable to protective ventilation systems to provide breathing air to operator's stations on earth-moving machinery used in contaminated areas. Its purpose is to limit the exposure of the operator (driver) to hazardous agents when earth-moving machinery is used in contaminated areas.
This document describes requirements, test procedures and information to be provided by the manufacturer of protective ventilation systems to provide breathing air to operator's stations on earthmoving machinery used in contaminated areas.
This document gives requirements additional to the common safety requirements of EN 474-1:2022 "Earthmoving machinery - Safety - Part 1: General requirements" and to the machine specific parts of the EN 474:2022 series.
This document does not repeat the requirements from the EN 474:2022 series but adds or replaces the requirements as applicable for Earth-moving machinery.
This document does not cover:
- the safety requirements to be used for any specific application;
- the choice of the system for a specific application site;
- the filter performance or the relevant filtration class for any particular application;
- the choice of type of filter for a specific application;
- the cab performance requirement when in-use;
- the filter durability when in-use.
This document is not applicable to protective ventilation systems which are manufactured before the date of its publication as an EN.
For the list of significant hazards, see informative Annex A.
Legislation related to this standard
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)
Harmonised Standard / Cited in the Official Journal
PUBLISHED
EN 17969:2026
60.60
Standard published
May 20, 2026
