SAFETY OF MACHINERY - EMERGENCY STOP - PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGN (FIRST REVISION) (ISO 13850:2006, IDT)
This Malaysian Standard specifies functional requirements and design principles for the emergency stop function on machinery, independent of the type of energy used to control the function. It is applicable to all machinery expect for:
- machine in which the provision of emergency stop would not lessen the risk;
- hand-held portable machines and hand-guided machines.
It does not dealt with the functions such as reversal or limitation of motion, deflection, shielding, braking or disconnecting, which can be part of the emergency stop function.
