EN ISO/ASTM 52938-1:2025

Additive manufacturing of metals - Environment, health and safety - Part 1: Safety requirements for PBF-LB machines (ISO/ASTM 52938-1:2025)

Publication date:   Aug 14, 2025

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60.60   Standard published   Jul 9, 2025

CEN

CEN/TC 438 Additive Manufacturing

European Norm

13.100   Occupational safety. Industrial hygiene | 13.110   Safety of machinery | 25.030   Additive manufacturing

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Scope

This document deals with the technical requirements and the means for their verification for additive manufacturing (AM) machines using a bed of metallic powder, pyrophoric feedstock excluded, and a laser herein designated as machine.
This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events during all phases of the life of the machine (ISO 12100:2010, 5.4), as listed in Annex A, caused by AM machines using a bed of metallic powder and a laser when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.
This document does not deal with hazards which can occur:
—     during the design and construction phase of the laser beam powder ped fusion (PBF-LB) machine itself;
—     operating in potentially explosive atmospheres.
This document does not apply to technologies other than AM metals PBF-LB.
This document is not applicable to machines manufactured before the date of its publication.

Related legislation

Legislation related to this standard

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)

Harmonised Standard / Cited in the Official Journal

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EN ISO/ASTM 52938-1:2025
60.60 Standard published
Jul 9, 2025