Translation of "Machine à secouer la matière " (French → English) :

Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand

Agri-foodstuffs machinery and machinery for the cosmetics and pharmaceuticals industries, hand-held and/or hand-guided machinery and machinery for working wood and analogous materials must meet all the essential health and safety requirements described in this annex. The following essential requirements therefore relate only to the particular characteristics of these types of machinery.

Machinery for working wood and analogous materials must comply with the following rules:

2.4. Machinery for working wood and analogous materials

4. The competent authority must repeat the validation procedures periodically, when it considers it necessary, and in any case each time any significant alterations are made to the process (for example, modification of the machinery or a change of raw materials).

(3a) Whereas existing national health and safety provisions providing protection against the risks caused by machinery must be approximated to ensure free movement on the market of machinery without lowering existing justified levels of protection in the Member States; whereas the provisions of this directive concerning the design and construction of machinery, essential for a safer working environment, shall be accompanied by specific provisions concerning the prevention of certain risks to which workers can be exposed at work, as well as by provisions based on the organisation of safety of workers in the working environment;