1 Scope

This document is applicable to the following machines and to machines which incorporate more than one function as listed below. The document also applies to partly completed machinery as far as conformity is claimed for certain essential health and safety requirements.

This document applies to the following machines when they handle rigid containers:

• unscrambling machines

• cap removing machines

• cleaning machines

• sanitizing machines

• filling machines

• capping, closing and sealing machines

• closure securing machines

• inspection machines

• labelling machines

• decorating machines

• heating and cooling machines for packed product, working at atmospheric pressure

• sterilizing machines (excluding machines that sterilize using heat treatment)

with one or more of the following functions: cleaning, sanitizing, pasteurizing, filling, labelling, closing, sealing or inspecting and handling pre-formed rigid containers including their closures.

This document is also applicable to the following equipment if it is part of one of the machines listed above:

• conveyors

• vacuum transfer conveyors

• magnetic belt conveyors

• dispose or reject mechanisms (pushers)

• keg stopping devices

• keg lifting and inverting mechanisms

• extraction or ventilation systems

• hoppers

• rotary mechanisms

• coding and marking equipment incorporated in a packaging machine:

  • hot foil coding equipment

  • laser coding equipment

  • ink jet coding equipment

  • emboss coding equipment.

The individual machines in the scope of this document are described in 3.2.

This document deals with safety requirements and their verification for machine design, construction and information, applicable to installation, commissioning, operation, adjustment, maintenance, cleaning, sanitizing and dismantling of packaging machines for pre-formed rigid containers.

The extent to which hazards, hazardous situations and events are covered is indicated in Annex B.

This document does not apply to the following machines:

• machines that were manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CEN;

• machines for cups and trays or tubs made of a foil of plastic, aluminium or paper, which are in the scope of EN 415‑3:2021;

• aerosol filling and sealing machines;

• filling machines for gas;

• autoclaves;

• conveyors which link packaging machines but are not integrated in packaging machines or part of packaging machines;

• blow moulding machines;

  NOTE    See EN 422:2009.

• sleeve label removing machines.

This document does not consider the following hazards:

• the use of packaging machines in potentially explosive atmospheres not generated by the machine itself;

• hazards associated with packing explosives;

• hazards arising from ancillary equipment, which is not part of the machine, e.g. equipment for evacuating gases, for cooling or refrigeration, for the supply of steam, energy, or product.