CEN/TC 148/WG 6 - Safety for cash desks
This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events relevant to cash desks, when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see informative Annex C).
This document defines the requirements for the design of cash desks according to 3.1 in retail industries irrespective of the sales area of the shop. This document is also applicable to cash desks without conveyor belts.
This document does not consider the equipment for the registration and payment process (i.e. scanner, printer, screens), except for recommendations of the placement for such equipment.
This document is not applicable to the machinery or machinery components manufactured before the date of its publication.
This document does not consider cash desks operated by handicapped cashiers.
Information concerning cash desks for disabled customers can be found in Annex B.
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CEN/TC 148/WG 6 is a Working Group within the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). It is named "Safety for cash desks". This committee has published 1 standards.
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