This document gives equivalent terms and dieir definition for machinery safety in the three official languages of CEN and CENELEC. The terms included are those which have been identified as being fundamental to machinery safety standards because their equivalence and definition are necessary to avoid ambiguity and ensure consistency of use.
These definitions have been extracted without change from A and B mandated standards. The origin is indicated precisely under the English version of the definitions, by giving the EN number with clause and subclause. The terms and definitions given s'lall be used when drafting machinery safety standards.
NOTE 1 : In addiuon to terms used in the diree official CEN/CENELEC languages (English, French and German), this European Prestandard gives the equivalent terms in the Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish languages ; these are published under the responsibility of the National Committee/member body for Denmark, Finland, Italy, Nedierlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden. However, only the terms and definitions given in die official languages can be considered as EN terms and definitions.
NOTE 2 : Codes for die representation of die names of languages are according to ISO 639.