logo

Standards Manage Your Business

We Manage Your Standards

ISO

ISO 11681-2:2022

Machinery for forestry — Portable chain-saw safety requirements and testing — Part 2: Chain-saws for tree service

Standard Details

This document specifies safety requirements and measures for verification for the design, construction, transporting and commissioning for tree service of portable, combustion-engine, hand-held chain-saws having a maximum mass of 4,3 kg (without the guide bar and saw-chain and with tanks empty).

The chain-saws are intended to be used, with the right hand on the rear handle and left hand on the front handle, by a trained operator.

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 relevant to these machines when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Annex B).

This document is applicable to chain-saws manufactured after its date of publication.

NOTE      Figure 1 shows an example of a chain-saw within the scope of this document.

General Information

Status : Published
Standard Type: Main
Document No: ISO 11681-2:2022
Document Year: 2022
Pages: 30
Edition: 4
  • Section Volume:
  • ISO/TC 23/SC 17. Manually portable (hand-held) powered lawn and garden equipment and forest machinery

Life Cycle

Currently Viewing

Published
ISO 11681-2:2022
Knowledge Corner

Expand Your Knowledge and Unlock Your Learning Potential - Your One-Stop Source for Information!

© Copyright 2024 BSB Edge Private Limited.

Enquire now +