EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024
(Amendment)Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 2-8: Particular requirements for hand-held shears and nibblers
Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 2-8: Particular requirements for hand-held shears and nibblers
Elektrische motorbetriebene handgeführte Werkzeuge, transportable Werkzeuge und Rasen- und Gartenmaschinen - Sicherheit - Teil 2-8: Besondere Anforderungen für handgeführte Blechscheren und Nibbler
Outils électroportatifs à moteur, outils portables et machines pour jardins et pelouses - Sécurité - Partie 2-8: Exigences particulières pour les cisailles et les grignoteuses portatives
Elektromotorna ročna orodja, prenosna orodja ter stroji za trato in vrt - Varnost - 2-8. del: Posebne zahteve za ročne škarje in sekalnike - Dopolnilo AB
General Information
- Status
- Not Published
- Publication Date
- 26-May-2026
- Technical Committee
- CLC/TC 116 - Safety of hand-held motor-operated electric tools
- Current Stage
- 4060 - Enquiry results established and sent to TC, SR, BTTF - Enquiry
- Start Date
- 03-May-2024
- Due Date
- 19-Feb-2025
- Completion Date
- 03-May-2024
Relations
- Effective Date
- 16-Jan-2024
- Effective Date
- 16-Jan-2024
Overview
The EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024 standard, developed by the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CLC), addresses the safety requirements for electric motor-operated hand-held shears and nibblers. This document is a draft amendment to the original EN 62841-2-8:2016, focusing on particular safety measures for hand-held shears and nibblers used in various cutting and shaping applications. It highlights essential features such as isolation and disabling devices to prevent accidental startup and ensure user safety during maintenance.
The standard is part of a wider series covering electric motor-operated tools, transportable tools, and lawn and garden machinery, and aligns with the European Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, offering a framework for compliance and regulatory conformance.
Key Topics
Safety requirements for hand-held shears and nibblers: Specific provisions are included to enhance protection against mechanical hazards associated with these tools.
Isolation and disabling devices for battery-powered tools:
- Tools must be equipped with an isolation device that disconnects at least one battery pole during servicing or maintenance, preventing accidental injury.
- Alternatively, a disabling device is required to avoid unintentional starting, which may include lock-off mechanisms requiring two distinct actions before motor start, or removable disabling components that render the tool inoperable when applied or removed.
Clear indication and protection against accidental reconnection: Isolation devices must provide unambiguous manual control states and include safeguards to prevent unintended reconnection.
Modifications to annexes of the existing standard: The draft introduces updates to Annex K and L, reflecting these new safety requirements for battery tools and tools with mains connections.
Conformity with Machinery Directive: Annex ZZ details the correlation between this standard and the essential safety requirements of the EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, facilitating legal conformity in member states.
Applications
EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024 is crucial for manufacturers, safety engineers, and regulatory bodies involved with:
Hand-held shears and nibblers: Ensuring safe design and operation of motor-operated cutting tools frequently used in metalworking, manufacturing, maintenance, and landscaping.
Battery-operated portable tools: Implementing safety measures that cater specifically to the risks posed by integrated battery packs, particularly in avoiding accidental startup during servicing.
Regulatory compliance: Providing manufacturers clear guidelines to meet European safety requirements, enabling market access and certification within the European Economic Area (EEA).
Product development and testing: Offering benchmarks for product safety inspections, manual tests, and risk reduction strategies in tool design.
Related Standards
This document builds on and modifies the existing EN 62841-2-8:2016 standard and relates to the broader IEC 62841 series, which covers the safety of motor-operated electric tools. Key related standards and directives include:
EN 62841-1: General safety requirements for electric motor-operated hand-held tools and lawn and garden machinery.
Directive 2006/42/EC (Machinery Directive): European regulation mandating safety and health protection requirements for machinery placed on the EU market.
Standards governing ergonomics, control system safety, and protection against electrical hazards associated with portable electric tools.
By adhering to EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024, stakeholders ensure that hand-held shears and nibblers operate safely, minimize risks of mechanical injury, prevent unintended activation, and comply with both European and international safety mandates essential for construction, manufacturing, and garden tool industries.
Frequently Asked Questions
EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024 is a draft published by CLC. Its full title is "Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 2-8: Particular requirements for hand-held shears and nibblers". This standard covers: Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 2-8: Particular requirements for hand-held shears and nibblers
Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 2-8: Particular requirements for hand-held shears and nibblers
EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024 is classified under the following ICS (International Classification for Standards) categories: 25.140.20 - Electric tools. The ICS classification helps identify the subject area and facilitates finding related standards.
EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024 has the following relationships with other standards: It is inter standard links to EN 62841-2-8:2016/FprA1:2024, EN 62841-2-8:2016. Understanding these relationships helps ensure you are using the most current and applicable version of the standard.
EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024 is associated with the following European legislation: EU Directives/Regulations: 2006/42/EC; Standardization Mandates: M/396. When a standard is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union, products manufactured in conformity with it benefit from a presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the corresponding EU directive or regulation.
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Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-april-2024
Elektromotorna ročna orodja, prenosna orodja ter stroji za trato in vrt - Varnost - 2-
8. del: Posebne zahteve za ročne škarje in sekalnike - Dopolnilo AB
Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden
machinery - Safety - Part 2-8: Particular requirements for hand-held shears and nibblers
Elektrische motorbetriebene handgeführte Werkzeuge, transportable Werkzeuge und
Rasen- und Gartenmaschinen - Sicherheit - Teil 2-8: Besondere Anforderungen für
handgeführte Blechscheren und Nibbler
Outils électroportatifs à moteur, outils portables et machines pour jardins et pelouses -
Sécurité - Partie 2-8: Exigences particulières pour les cisailles et les grignoteuses
portatives
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024
ICS:
25.120.10 Kovaški stroji. Stiskalnice. Forging equipment. Presses.
Škarje Shears
25.140.20 Električna orodja Electric tools
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
EUROPEAN STANDARD DRAFT
EN 62841-2-8:2016
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
prAB
February 2024
ICS 25.140.20 -
English Version
Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and
lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 2-8: Particular
requirements for hand-held shears and nibblers
Outils électroportatifs à moteur, outils portables et machines Elektrische motorbetriebene handgeführte Werkzeuge,
pour jardins et pelouses - Sécurité - Partie 2-8: Exigences transportable Werkzeuge und Rasen- und
particulières pour les cisailles et les grignoteuses portatives Gartenmaschinen - Sicherheit - Teil 2-8: Besondere
Anforderungen für handgeführte Blechscheren und Nibbler
This draft amendment prAB, if approved, will modify the European Standard EN 62841-2-8:2016; it is submitted to CENELEC members for
enquiry.
Deadline for CENELEC: 2024-05-03.
It has been drawn up by CLC/TC 116.
If this draft becomes an amendment, CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which
stipulate the conditions for giving this amendment the status of a national standard without any alteration.
This draft amendment was established by CENELEC in three official versions (English, French, German).
A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to
the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Türkiye and the United Kingdom.
Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are aware and to
provide supporting documentation.
Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without notice and
shall not be referred to as a European Standard.
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2024 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Project: 79286 Ref. No. EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024 E
1 European foreword
2 This document (EN 62841-2-8:2016/prAB:2024) has been prepared by CLC/TC 116 “Safety and
3 environmental aspects of motor-operated electric tools”.
4 This document is currently submitted to the Enquiry.
5 The following dates are proposed:
• latest date by which the existence of this (doa) dor + 6 months
document has to be announced at national
level
• latest date by which this document has to be (dop) dor + 12 months
implemented at national level by publication of
an identical national standard or by
endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards (dow) dor + 48 months
conflicting with this document have to be (to be confirmed or
withdrawn
modified when voting)
6 This document modifies by common modifications EN 62841-2-8:2016/prA1:2024, which consists of the
7 text of 116/xxx/CDV (future IEC 62841-2-8:2016/A1:202x) prepared by IEC/TC 116 “Safety of motor-
8 operated electric tools”.
9 EN 62841-2-8:2016/prA1:2024 together with prAB:2024 includes a revision to Table 4 and also clarifies
10 that subclauses 21.18.1.2 and 23.3 of IEC 62841-1:2014 are not applicable for these tools.
11 This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CENELEC by the
12 European Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these
13 requests for its Member States.
14 For relationship with EU Legislation, see informative Annex ZZ, which is an integral part of this document.
15 1 Modification to Annex K, “Battery tools and battery packs”
16 Add the following new subclause:
17 “K.21.18.Z301 Isolation and disabling device
18 Tools with an integral battery shall be equipped
19 — with an isolation device to prevent the risk of injury from mechanical hazards during servicing or user
20 maintenance; or
21 — with a disabling device that prevents unintentional starting of the tool.
22 An isolation device shall
23 — provide disconnect
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