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AS/NZS 4024.1801:2025

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Safety of machinery, Part 1801: Safety distances to prevent danger zones being reached by upper and lower limbs (ISO 13857:2019, IDT)

AS/NZS 4024.1801:2025 identically adopts ISO 13857:2019, which specifies values and requirements for safety distances in both industrial and non-industrial environments to prevent machinery hazard zones being reached
Published: 07/03/2025
Pages: 20
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
National Foreword
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Safety distances to prevent reach or access by upper and lower limbs
4.1 General
4.1.1 Assumptions
4.1.2 Risk assessment
4.1.2.1 General
4.1.2.2 Selection of safety distances when reaching upwards and reaching over
4.2 Safety distances to prevent access by upper limbs
4.2.1 Reaching upwards
4.2.1.1 General
4.2.1.2 Height of the hazard zone
4.2.2 Reaching over protective structures
4.2.2.1 General
4.2.2.2 Values
4.2.3 Reaching around
4.2.4 Reaching through openings
4.2.4.1 Reaching through regular openings — Persons of 14 years of age and above
4.2.4.2 Reaching through regular openings — Persons of 3 years of age and above
4.2.4.3 Openings of irregular shape
4.2.5 Effect of additional protective structures on safety distances
4.3 Safety distances to prevent access by lower limbs
4.4 Consideration of whole body access
Annex A
Annex B
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DR AS/NZS 4024.1801:2024