BS EN ISO 19353:2019,Safety of machinery — Fire prevention and fire protection.BS EN ISO 19353:2019 pdf free download here.
This document specifies methods for identifying fire hazards resulting from machinery and for performing a risk assessment.
It gives the basic concepts and methodology of protective measures for fire prevention and protection to be taken during the design and construction of machinery. The measures consider the intended use and reasonably foreseeable misuse of the machine.
It provides guidelines for consideration in reducing the risk of machinery fires to acceptable levels through machine design, risk assessment and operator instructions.
This document is not applicable to:
— mobile machinery;
— machinery designed to contain controlled combustion processes (e.g. internal combustion engines, furnaces), unless these processes can constitute the ignition source of a fire in other parts of the machinery or outside of this;
— machinery used in potentially explosive atmospheres and explosion prevention and protection; and
— fire detection and suppression systems that are integrated in building fire safety systems.
It is also not applicable to machinery or machinery components manufactured before the date of its publication.
The safety of machinery against fire involves fire prevention and fire protection and fire-fighting In general, these include technical, structural, organizational and fire suppression measures. Effective fire safety of machinery can require the implementation of a single measure or a combination of measures.
In addition, this document is intended for standardization bodies elaborating type-C standards. The requirements of this document can be supplemented or modified by a type-C standard.
For machines which are covered by the scope of a type-C standard and which have been designed and built according to the requirements of that standard, the requirements of that type-C standard take precedence.
2 Normative references
ISO 12100: 2010, Safety of machinery – General principles for design-Risk assessment and risk reduction;
ISO 13849-1, Safety of machinery – Safety-related parts of control systems – Part 1: Genera/ principles;
ISO 13943, Fire safety – Vocabulary.