ISO 11681-1:2022

Machinery for forestry — Portable chain-saw safety requirements and testing — Part 1: Chain-saws for forest service

Publication date:   Mar 20, 2022

General information

60.60 Standard published   Mar 20, 2022

ISO

ISO/TC 23/SC 17 Manually portable forest machinery

International Standard

65.060.80   Forestry equipment

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Scope

This document specifies safety requirements and measures for verification for the design, construction, transporting and commissioning of portable, combustion-engine, hand-held chain-saws. The chain-saws are intended to be used for forest work by only one operator, with the right hand on the rear handle and left hand on the front handle.
Dismantling and scrapping of the product is not covered by this document. Methods for the elimination or reduction of hazards arising from the use of these machines and the type of information on safe working practices to be provided by the manufacturer are specified.
This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events, with the exception of kickback and balance for machines with an engine displacement of more than 80 cm3, relevant to these machines when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Annex A).
This document is applicable to chain-saws manufactured after its date of publication.

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ISO 11681-1:2022
60.60 Standard published
Mar 20, 2022