DIN EN 415-2:2025-11

This standard contains safety-related specifications. This standard defines relevant requirements set out in Annex I of EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, relating to machines which were placed on the European Economic Area (EEA) market for the first time, with the intent of simplifying the means of proving conformity with these requirements. Once this standard is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union, it is deemed a "harmonized" standard and thus, a manufacturer applying this standard may assume compliance with the requirements of the Machinery Directive ("presumption of conformity"). This document applies 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 deals with the following machines handling rigid containers including: - 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 (others than 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 also deals with equipment when it is part of a machine listed above: - conveyors; - vacuum or magnetic transfer conveyors; - dispose or eject devices (pushers); - keg stopping devices; - keg lift and inverting machines; - extraction or ventilation system or blowers; - hoppers; - rotary mechanisms; - coding and marking equipment incorporated in a packaging machine; - hot foil coders; - laser coders; - ink jet coders; - emboss coders. The individual machines 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, 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 is not applicable to the following machines: - machines that were manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CEN; - machines for cups or trays or tubs made of a foil of plastic, aluminium or paper, which are the subject 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; 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, such as equipment for evacuating gases, for cooling or refrigeration, for the supply of steam, energy or product. This document (FprEN 415-2:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 146 "Safety of packaging machines", the secretariat of which is held by UNI. The standard differs from DIN EN 415-2:2000-10 as follows: a) packing and unpacking machines have been removed from the Scope; b) description of hazards has been extended and the order of their presentation is hazard-based; c) safety requirements have been rewritten so they are in line with EN 415-10:2014; d) noise test code has been rewritten to be in line with EN 415-9:2009; e) normative references have been changed to reflect the many changes that have been made to B1 and B2 standards. National interests in the preparation are represented by Committee NA 060-18-24 AA "Verpackungsmaschinen für vorgefertigte formstabile Packmittel (SpA CEN/TC 146/WG 1)" ("Pre-formed rigid container packaging machines") of Technical Section "Machinery intended for use with foodstuffs and feed and packaging machinery" at DIN Standards Committee Mechanical Engineering (NAM). Representatives of manufacturers of "packaging machines for preformed rigid packaging" and of the professional associations are involved in the preparation.