The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

4.  For Schedule 4 there shall be substituted—

Regulation 2(2)

“SCHEDULE 4 (Annex IV of the Machinery Directive)

1.   Circular saws (single or multi-blade) for working with wood and analogous materials or for working with meat and analogous materials.

1.1   Sawing machines with fixed tool during operation, having a fixed bed with manual feed of the workpiece or with a demountable power feed.

1.2   Sawing machines with fixed tool during operation, having a manually operated reciprocating saw-bench or carriage.

1.3   Sawing machines with fixed tool during operation, having a built-in mechanical feed device for the workpieces, with manual loading and/or unloading.

1.4   Sawing machines with movable tool during operation, with a mechanical feed device and manual loading and/or unloading.

2.   Hand-fed surface planing machines for woodworking.

3.   Thicknessers for one-side dressing with manual loading and/or unloading for woodworking.

4.   Band-saws with a fixed or mobile bed and band-saws with a mobile carriage, with manual loading and/or unloading, for working with wood and analogous materials or for working with meat and analogous materials.

5.   Combined machines of the types referred to in 1 to 4 and 7 for working with wood and analogous materials.

6.   Hand-fed tenoning machines with several tool holders for woodworking.

7.   Hand-fed vertical spindle moulding machines for working with wood and analogous materials.

8.   Portable chain saws for woodworking.

9.   Presses, including press-brakes, for the cold working of metals, with manual loading and/or unloading, whose movable working parts may have a travel exceeding 6mm and a speed exceeding 30 mm/s.

10.   Injection or compression plastics-moulding machines with manual loading or unloading.

11.   Injection or compression rubber-moulding machines with manual loading or unloading.

12.   Machinery for underground working of the following types:

• machinery on rails: locomotives and brake-vans.

• hydraulic-powered roof supports.

• internal combustion engines to be fitted to machinery for underground working.

13.   Manually-loaded trucks for the collection of household refuse incorporating a compression mechanism.

14.   Guards and detachable transmission shafts with universal joints as described in paragraph 3.4.7(1).

15.   Vehicles servicing lifts.”.

(1)

This is a reference to section 3.4.7 of the essential health and safety requirements set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.