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Document ID (ISN)21960
CIS number 74-2059
Year 1973
Convention or series no.
Title Sheet-metal offset printing machines
Original title Machines à imprimer sur support métallique à feuilles par procédés offset. [in French]
Bibliographic information Recommendation No.105, National Joint Technical Committee for the Metals Industry (Comité technique national de la métallurgie), French National Sickness Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale de l'assurance-maladie), Paris, France. Cahiers de notes documentaires - Sécurité et hygiène du travail, Paris, France, 4th quarter 1973, No.73, Note No.873-73-73, p.531-539.
Abstract These recommendations, adopted on 20 June 1973, concern single or coupled machines. The ways and means of preventing accidents due to mechanical hazards (crushing, shearing, cutting, etc.) and the hazards of falls, toxicity and fire are described. Controls and warning devices which should be provided are specified and the difficulties of improving old equipment are stressed. Sample safety rules, a list of maximum permissible concentrations of vapours from the principle solvents used, and the text of the joint agreement of 14 June 1965 on the conditions of work of young persons in offset press shops are appended.
Descriptors (primary) France; machinery guarding regulations; sheet-metal printing; offset printing
Descriptors (secondary) protection against falls from heights; signal lamps; fire hazards; harmful substances; safety rules; age limit; mechanical hazards; directive; control elements
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Subject(s) Paper-making and printing
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Printing, photography and photocopying industry