What is BS EN 15861-Safety and hygiene requirements for smokehouses about?
BS EN 15861 is a European standard on food processing machinery that discusses the safety and hygiene requirements for smokehouses to ensure protection against workplace hazards.
BS EN 15861 specifies safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of smokehouses for commercial use.
The machines covered by BS EN 15861 are used for the smoking of foodstuffs, especially meat, fish, or similar products, as well as the connected heating and cooling processes.
Smokehouses consist of the following elements:
- Smoke chamber with equipment
- Air handling system
- Smoke generator
- Pipes and ducts
- Cleaning systems
BS EN 15861 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events and hygiene requirements relevant to smokehouses when they are used as intended and under foreseeable conditions of misuse.
BS EN 15861 deals with the hazards that can arise during the whole life of smokehouses.
Who is BS EN 15861-Safety and hygiene requirements for smokehouses for?
BS EN 15861 on safety and hygiene requirements for smokehouses is useful for:
- Smokehouse manufactures
- Smokehouse designers
- Smokehouse test personnel
- Occupational health and safety departments
- Risk assessment authorities
- Quality assurance departments
Why should you use BS EN 15861-Safety and hygiene requirements for smokehouses?
Safeguards are essential to protect workers from injury. Any machine part, function, or process that might cause injury should be safeguarded. When the operation of a machine may result in a contact injury to the operator or others in the area, the hazard should be removed or controlled.
BS EN 15861 provides you with guidance on safety and hygiene requirements and/or protective measures, a list of significant hazards, measures for danger zones, verification of safety and hygiene requirements and/or protective measures, noise test code for smokehouses and much more.
The requirements provided by BS EN 15861 assist you in improving the performance and quality of smokehouses and ensure protection to workers against mechanical, electrical, explosion and thermal hazards, and hazards from slipping, tripping, and falling.
With obedience and compliance to BS EN 15861, you can enhance smokehouses’ efficacy and manufacture a standardized product.