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AS/NZS 4024.3612:2025
[Current]Safety of machinery, Part 3612: Conveyors - Unit handling conveyor systems (EN 619:2022, (ED. 1.0) MOD)
AS/NZS 4024.3612:2025 identically adopts and modifies EN 619:2022, which specifies the requirements for machine design, transport, installation, commissioning, operation, adjustment, maintenance and cleaning to minimize the hazards listed in Annex F
Published: 24/04/2025
Pages: 154
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
European foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures
4.1 General
4.1.1 Area concept
4.1.2 Restricted area
4.2 Protection against mechanical hazards
4.2.1 General requirements for protection against moving parts
4.2.1.1 General requirements for guards and sensitive protective devices
4.2.1.1.1 Guards
4.2.1.1.2 Interlocking devices associated with movable guards
4.2.1.1.3 Sensitive protective devices
4.2.1.1.4 Shearing/crushing between load and a fixed adjacent object
4.2.1.1.5 Crushing between two loads
4.2.1.1.6 Drawing-in points
4.2.1.1.7 Entanglement points
4.2.1.2 Maximum speed for risk due to movement of unit loads
4.2.2 Conveyors in assembly-lines on which persons may travel in horizontal direction
4.2.3 Measures for protection against unintended movement
4.2.4 Strength calculation
4.2.4.1 Strength of non-fixed load lifting attachments
4.2.4.2 Strength of ropes, chains and belts for lifting purposes
4.2.5 Stability against overturning for mobile conveyors
4.2.6 Protection against falling or ejected objects
4.2.7 Prevention of sharp edges, sharp angles and rough surfaces
4.2.8 Preventing access to danger areas across the load entry/exit points or stopping the dangerous movement (Figure 1: B or C)
4.2.9 Preventing access across the load entry/exit points to restricted areas (Figure 1: A)
4.2.10 Requirements for separating plates, nets, mats, roof type profiles and sloping plates
4.3 Measures for protection against electrical hazards
4.3.1 Electrical equipment
4.3.2 Means of disconnection
4.3.3 IP-Degree of protection
4.4 Safety requirements related to EMC
4.5 Electrostatic charges
4.6 Hydraulic and pneumatic systems and equipment
4.6.1 Hydraulics
4.6.2 Pneumatics
4.7 Measures for isolation and energy dissipation
4.8 Protection against thermal hazards
4.9 Noise reduction at design stage
4.10 Means of access
4.10.1 General
4.10.2 Cross over passageways
4.11 Provisions for maintenance
4.11.1 Work at machines with open guards
4.11.2 Lighting
4.12 Transport of machines
4.13 Lifting of machines or parts of the plant
4.14 Ergonomic requirements in machine design
4.15 Control devices
4.16 Start and restart function
4.17 Stop functions and stop control devices
4.18 Emergency stopping
4.19 Failure of the power supply
4.20 Particular/additional requirements for specific conveyors
4.20.1 Vertical switch conveyors
4.20.2 Crushing and shearing points between conveyors and conveyed unit loads
4.20.2.1 Crushing and shearing points between roller conveyors and conveyed unit loads
4.20.2.2 Crushing and shearing points between carrying-chain or multi belt conveyors and conveyed unit loads
4.20.3 Nip points on belt driven roller conveyors
4.20.4 Plate conveyors
4.20.5 Underfloor chain conveyors
4.20.6 Telescopic conveyors (boom conveyors)
4.20.6.1 Height adjustable telescopic conveyors
4.20.6.2 Rail bound mobile telescopic conveyors
4.20.6.3 Telescopic conveyors with platforms
4.20.7 Rail bound conveyors
4.20.8 Overhead conveyors
4.20.8.1 General
4.20.8.2 Safety distances for overhead conveyors
4.20.8.3 Safety distances for overhead conveyors in restricted areas
4.20.8.4 Working places under, on or at overhead conveyors
4.20.8.4.1 Maximum speeds at working places under, on or at overhead conveyors
4.20.8.4.2 Lifting elements in case of working places under, on or at overhead conveyors
4.20.8.4.3 Inadvertent vertical motion at working places under, on or at overhead conveyors
4.20.8.4.4 Working on overhead conveyors or on the load in assembly lines
4.20.8.5 Rollers of overhead conveyors
4.20.8.6 Dimensioning of track, steelwork and carrier
4.20.8.7 Interruptions of tracks of overhead conveyors
4.20.8.8 Load securing
4.20.8.9 Transfer devices of overhead conveyors
4.20.8.10 Maintenance vehicles for overhead conveyors
4.20.8.11 Maintenance requirements for self-propelled overhead conveyors
4.20.9 Transfer cars
4.20.9.1 General
4.20.9.2 Limitation of travel
4.20.9.3 Transfer cars with guards
4.20.9.3.1 General
4.20.9.3.2 Transfer cars with additional laser scanners
4.20.9.3.3 Transfer cars with short distance picking places
4.20.9.4 Transfer cars without separation
4.20.9.5 Transfer cars without separation in restricted areas
4.20.9.6 Transfer cars with onboard operator
4.20.10 Destination Coded Vehicle – systems and rail-guided floor track conveyors
4.20.11 Vertical transfer devices
4.20.11.1 Access to vertical transfer device
4.20.11.2 Preventing access from the working place and traffic area to the danger area of vertical transfer devices
4.20.11.3 Preventing access from the restricted area to the danger area of a vertical transfer device
4.20.11.4 Safety clearances in vertical transfer devices
4.20.11.5 Falling of lifting carriage or counterweight of vertical transfer devices above working places, traffic area and restricted area
4.20.11.6 Falling of lifting carriage or counterweight of vertical transfer devices on storey floors
4.20.11.7 Switching off for vertical transfer devices
4.20.11.8 Lowering speed for hydraulic and pneumatic powered vertical transfer devices
4.20.11.9 Overload protection system of vertical transfer devices
4.20.11.10 Vertical transfer device where riding on the lifting carriage is intended
4.20.11.11 Vertical transfer devices where standing on and/or under the lifting carriage is intended
4.20.11.12 Slackness of rope, belt or chain
4.20.11.13 Circulating conveyor – protective measures
4.20.12 Horizontal transfer devices
4.20.12.1 Turntable (turning the conveyor)
4.20.12.1.1 General
4.20.12.1.2 Turntable in restricted area
4.20.12.2 Pushers
4.20.13 Sorters
4.20.13.1 Safety measures at induct points
4.20.13.2 Safety measures for manual infeed positions
4.20.13.3 Safety measures for the use of service vehicles for loop-sorters
4.20.13.4 Chutes at sorters
4.20.14 Conveyors in public areas of airports
4.20.14.1 Manned check-in conveyors
4.20.14.2 Self-check-in conveyors
4.20.14.3 Reclaim conveyors
4.21 Safety related parts of control systems/performance level
5 Verification of safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures
5.1 General
5.2 Visual inspections
5.3 Measurements
5.4 Functional test
5.5 Calculation
5.6 EMC-Tests in relation to the Machinery Directive
6 Information for use
6.1 Instruction handbook
6.1.1 General
6.1.2 Instructions for the installation of the equipment
6.1.3 Instructions for the use of the equipment
6.1.4 Instructions for maintenance
6.1.5 Training
6.1.6 Remaining underneath loads
6.1.7 Instruction handbook for vertical transfer devices
6.1.8 Hazards generated by conveyed loads
6.1.9 Noise emission declaration
6.2 Marking
6.2.1 Rating plate
6.2.2 Load bearing capacity
6.2.3 Sign at vertical transfer devices
6.2.4 Marking of hydraulic fluid reservoirs
6.2.5 Marking of couplings in hydraulic or pneumatic systems
6.2.6 Prohibition sign for unauthorised persons
6.2.7 Sign “No thoroughfare”
6.2.8 Signs at conveying systems
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
E.1 General
E.2 Determination of A‐weighted emission sound pressure level
E.3 Measurement positions
E.3.1 Operator positions
E.3.2 Positions if working places are undefined
E.3.3 Additional measurement positions
E.4 Operating conditions during measurements
E.5 Information to be recorded
E.6 Information to be reported
E.7 Noise emission declaration
E.8 Example of a dual-number noise declaration for a vertical transfer device
Appendix F
Appendix ZA
Bibliography
Appendix ZZ
ZZ.1 Scope
ZZ.2 Modifications
Cited references in this standard