BS EN ISO 11681-2:2011+A1:2017 gives safety requirements and measures for their verification for the design and construction for tree service of portable, combustion-engine, hand-held chain-saws having a maximum mass - without guide bar or saw chain and with tanks empty - of 4,3 kg, intended to be used, with the right hand on the rear handle and left hand on the front handle, by a trained operator for pruning and dismantling standing tree crowns, and by persons having read and understood the safety requirements provided in the instruction handbook, using the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). 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 part of ISO 11681 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events relevant to these machines when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.


Cross References:
ISO 10726
ISO 6534
ISO 9518
ISO 22868
ISO 13849-2
ISO 7915
ISO 22867
ISO 6533
ISO 6535
ISO 7293
ISO 7010
ISO 8334
ISO 13772:2009 Ed 3
ISO 12100:2010 Ed 1
ISO 13857:2008 Ed 1
ISO 7914:2002 (R10) Ed 3
IEC 60745-1:2006
ISO 6531:2008 Ed 3
ISO 14982:1998 (R09)
ISO 13849-1:2006 Ed 2 (R10)
ISO 14163
ISO 11820
CR 1030-1
ISO/TR 11688-1
ISO 11691
ISO 3767-5
ISO/TR 22521
ISO/TR 11688-2
ISO/TR 22520
ISO 13732-1:2006 Ed 1
ISO 11684:1995
ISO 17080:2005 (R09) Ed 1


Incorporates the following:
Amendment, November 2017