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This document defines the terms for the forensic reporting on human identification by dental evidence.

This document gives the safety requirements and measures for building site saws, designed to cut wood and materials with similar physical characteristics to wood, capable of continuous production use, hereinafter referred to also as “machines”. This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, listed in Annex A, relevant to the machines, when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. This document is also applicable to the other life cycle phases of the machines: transport, assembly, adjustment, maintenance, dismantling and scrapping. This document applies to a machine that can also be fitted with a device for the saw blade to be manually raised and lowered through the table, whose hazards have been dealt with. This document applies to a machine designed to cut against the feed only. This document does not apply to: machines with a maximum saw blade diameter smaller than 350 mm or greater than 500 mm; hand-held motor-operated electric tools, including any adaptation permitting their use in a different mode, i.e. bench mounting; transportable motor-operated electric tools; machines with a device to tilt the saw blade for angle cutting, machines with more than one saw blade rotational speed and machines equipped with a sliding table. NOTE 1 Hand-held motor-operated electric tools are covered by IEC 62841-1 together with IEC 62841-2-5. NOTE 2 Transportable motor-operated electric tools are covered by IEC 62841-1 together with IEC 62841-3-1. NOTE 3 Machines with the device to tilt the saw blade for angle cutting, machines with more than one saw blade rotational speed and machines equipped with a sliding table are considered as table saws, covered by ISO 19085-9. This document is not applicable to machines intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres or to machines manufactured prior to the date of its publication.

This document specifies a method of determination of the sieve residue (gross particle and coagulum content) of polymer dispersions. This document is only applicable to coagulum type content.

This document specifies an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopic method (ICP-OES) for the determination of trace elements present in a solubilized form in most types of vegetable fats and oils. Depending on the dilution solvent used, most types of vegetable oils can be analysed (crude, degummed, refined, bleached, deodorized and hardened oils) and nearly all types of lecithins and phosphatides. Elements present in fine particles, such as bleaching earth, metal particles and rust, can result in poor recovery of the trace elements present as nebulization and atomization problems affect the ICP-OES analysis. This document does not apply to milk and milk products (including fat coming from milk and milk products). NOTE The only suitable non-ashing direct method for samples containing fine particles is graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry.

This document specifies a flame atomic absorption spectrometric method for the determination of iron content in manganese ores and concentrates. This document is applicable to iron content from 0,20 % (mass fraction) to 10,00 % (mass fraction), inclusive.

This document provides an inventory, as far as known at time of publication, of manufacturer’s identification marks and their assigned radio frequency identification (RFID) codes according to ISO 21007-1 and ISO 21007-2. The listing includes marks of existing gas cylinder manufacturers, as well as cylinder manufacturers which have ceased production in the past, but whose cylinders can still be in service today. NOTE It is intended to revise Annex A of this document from time to time to update the list of codes and identification marks of gas cylinder manufacturers in accordance with the progressing commercial and economic development in the cylinder manufacturing industry.

This document describes the state of knowledge resulting from Urban Rail experiences regarding the design of the axle, and further steps to be investigated.
CEN-CENELEC Guide 26 from 1st of June 2013 or EN 17343:2023 defines Urban Rail Systems.
This document:
—   is applicable for the assessment of new axle designs for urban rail vehicles;
—   defines EN 13103-1 as basic calculation method2;
—   defines the calculation procedure of an operational index depending on track layout, payload, mileage, position of the wheelset axle in vehicle. This procedure is based on the examination of Europe-wide service experiences and calculations made on urban rail wheelset axles running in Germany3;
—   defines the conditions, reflected in this operational index, under which additional assessment steps may be needed;
—   defines these additional assessment steps, including measurements of bending and torsion moments to derive load collectives representative of normal in-service operating conditions and the determination of equivalent stresses.
The design methodologies described in this document have been determined for axles of urban rail rolling stocks running under normal European conditions.  If there is any doubt as to whether the railway operating conditions are normal, these methodologies should be adapted.
This document applies to:
—   axles defined in EN 13261:2024;
—   axles with outboard bearings ;
—   powered and non-powered axles;
—   solid and hollow axles;
—   all track gauges4.
This document does not apply to tilting vehicles.
The calculation of wheelset axles for special applications (e.g. tamping/lining/levelling machines) may be made according to this document only for the load cases of free-running and running in train formation. This document does not apply to workload cases. They are calculated separately.
2 When no sufficient technical or operational data is available, EN 13103-1 can be used.
3 This Technical Specification reflects the state of knowledge resulting from Urban Rail experiences regarding the design of the axle, built-on by subcommittee DIN specially based for this Technical Specification
4 If the gauge is not standard, certain formulae need to be adapted, e.g. according to EN 13103-1:2017+A1:2022

This document specifies the enumeration of microorganisms by the plate-loop technique at 30 °C. This document is applicable to raw milk and is only applicable to samples that contain microorganisms up to a level of 3 × 105 cfu/ml.

This document specifies requirements for collision warning systems (CWS) and collision avoidance systems (CAS) that address swing and rotation motion for: earth moving machinery as defined in ISO 6165; mobile underground mining machinery as defined in ISO 19296; rock drill rigs as defined in ISO18758-1; road construction machinery as defined in ISO 22242. This document covers the risk of collision with an intended object between the ground plane of the machine and the top of the machine operator cabin. This document does not cover the risk of collision with parts of the intended objects that are higher than the top of the machine operator cabin. This document does not consider machine height of working tool (e.g. height of boom and arm). This document covers collision avoidance by motion inhibition or collision warning by providing warning to the operator, prior to initiation of swing and rotation motion around vertical axis of a machine (e.g. excavators) or swing and rotation parts of a machine about an axis (e.g. backhoe portion of backhoe loaders, conveyer part of mobile screens, booms on rock drills). It does not cover collision avoidance by automatic application of the braking or automatic manoeuvring (e.g. raise bucket) away from the intended object. The system described in this document is intended to assist the operator of the machine. The responsibility for safe operation of the machine remains with the machine operator. This document is not applicable to collision warning and collision avoidance systems installed/manufactured before the date of its publication. For the purpose of this document, the term "machine" means swing and rotation machine or swing and rotation parts of machine.

This document specifies the safety requirements and measures for horizontal cutting cross-cut sawing machines with one saw unit (radial arm saws) with manual loading or unloading of the workpiece or both and capable of continuous production use, hereinafter referred to also as “machines”. The machines are designed to cut solid wood and material with similar physical characteristics to wood, as well as: aluminium profiles also filled or composed with plastic or foam or rubber based insulating materials; composite materials, with core consisting of, for example, polyurethane or mineral material, laminated with light alloy; polymer‐matrix composite materials and reinforced with thermoplastic or thermoset or elastomeric materials; fibreglass; composite bars made from the materials listed above. This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, listed in Annex A, relevant to the machines, when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. This document is also applicable to the other life cycle phases of the machines: transport, assembly, adjustment, maintenance, dismantling and scrapping. This document does not apply to: machines designed for cross cutting of logs; bmachines designed for either sawing or milling roof timber frames, or both; machines fitted with hydraulic braking systems; machines fitted with hydraulically powered machine actuators; machines fitted with power-operated workpiece positioning system; machines fitted with the facility for either milling (including trenching and grooving), sanding or drilling, or all; machines able to perform cuts parallel to the fence; machines intended for use in potentially explosive atmosphere; machines manufactured prior to the publication of this document.

This document specifies for passenger lifts and goods passenger lifts:
the verification of door locking devices;
the verification of safety gears;
the verification of overspeed governors;
the verification of buffers;
the verification of safety circuits and SIL-rated circuits;
the verification of ascending car overspeed protection means;
the verification of unintended car movement protection means;
the verification of rupture valves and one-way restrictors;
the verification of suspension and compensation means;
the discard criteria for suspension means and sheaves;
the calculation of guide rails;
the calculation of rams, cylinders, rigid pipes and fittings;
the evaluation of the traction;
the evaluation of the safety factor on suspension means;
the pendulum shock tests;
the fault exclusion for electric and electronic components;
the design rules for SIL-rated circuits.
This document is not applicable to passenger lifts, goods passenger lifts or lift components, which are installed or manufactured before the date of its publication.

This document gives guidance on the design of natural ventilation systems and hybrid ventilation systems in non-residential buildings to achieve acceptable indoor air quality. It is applicable to spaces intended for human occupancy in non-residential buildings.
The guidance for design in this document is applicable to natural ventilation systems and hybrid ventilation systems, encompassing the natural ventilation part of the hybrid ventilation systems, only. The type of control and the design process of hybrid ventilation systems is covered by this document.
This document does not set the requirements for the indoor air quality, but utilizes these as input parameters when designing natural ventilation systems and hybrid ventilation systems.
This document does not apply to:
-   thermal comfort and overheating;
-   health risk from exposure to tobacco smoke;
-   air cleaning;
-   design of mechanical ventilation systems.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events relevant to hand-held or hand-operated laser processing machines (HLMs), when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. HLM is the machine, as defined in ISO 11553-1:2020, 3.7, in which laser radiation is generated, where the laser provides sufficient energy/power to cause a phase transition in a part of the workpiece and where the laser output or workpiece to be processed is guided manually or hand-held during the laser material processing.
This document defines general design requirements of HLM. HLM includes the laser device, beam-guiding device (e.g. mirror, fibre, lenses), beam-shaping device (e.g. telescope, focusing), and controls. The laser assembly as an integral part of the HLM or only the laser processing head is hand-held or hand-operated during the laser material processing.
This document does not apply
— to laser processing machines which are remotely controlled by a manual controller (hand-operated controller), such as joy sticks, keyboard, etc., without touching a workpiece or a part mechanically connected with the laser material processing head by using the hand(s) of the operator (user)
— to laser processing machines without a drive system which may not belong to machinery. And the laser processing apparatus without moving parts, which may not be considered as machinery in “Type C standard”.
— to medical or cosmetic applications for the treatment of living human or animal tissue;
— to weapon applications, (e.g. such as with regard to military applications, direct close combat.)
NOTE “hand-operated laser processing machine” is synonymous with “hand-guided laser processing machine” in this document. Hand-operated laser processing machines often use manual force reduction means such as wheels, supports, etc., for manual positioning of the laser processing heads or the workpieces.
It is applicable to HLMs using laser radiation to process materials.
The purpose of this document is to draw attention to the hazards related to HLMs and to prevent personal injury. Depending on the application and the location/operating conditions of HLMs, a number of different significant hazards can arise. This document describes both the areas of hazards analysis and risk assessment as well as protective measures.
Requirements dealing with noise as a hazard are covered by ISO 11553-3:2013.
This document does not apply to laser products or equipment manufactured solely or expressly for applications which are excluded from the Scope of ISO 11553-1:2020. This document is not applicable for HLMs which have been manufactured before the date of publication of this standard.

This document defines the general terms and the calculations used to determine the thermohydraulic performance of heat exchangers. It includes the general test procedure and related theories.
This document is intended to be used for acceptance-testing heat exchangers in test facilities such as laboratories, manufacturer test facilities and final installation site.
This document specifies three acceptance levels:
—   level 1 for minimum tolerances;
—   level 2 for nominal tolerances;
—   level 3 for maximum tolerances;
This document constitutes an application-specific standard in line with EN 305 and EN 306.

This document describes the technical features of parcel boxes for end use. This covers technical features such as size of parcels, ergonomics and safety, corrosion and water penetration resistance and security of delivery.

This document specifies the fundamental principles and concepts of conformity assessment schemes (programmes) and provides guidelines for understanding, developing, operating or maintaining them.

IEC 63553:2026 specifies performance requirements of fully flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) tiles and panels whose configurations are twisted, wavy or helical for use on supplies up to 120 V ripple free DC for indoor and similar general lighting purposes and designed for being bent during the manufacturing process of curved luminaires.
The requirements of this document relate only to type testing.

This document specifies requirements, test methods, marking and information to be supplied for autobelay devices, intended to protect against falls during recreational use in a climbing structure. An autobelay device is a movable personal fall protection system for single person use.
This document does not specify requirements for descender devices or retractable fall arresters that are used for descending/climbing in mountaineering, rescue, rope access, fall arrest or work positioning systems.
NOTE 1   A climbing structure is e.g. a ropes course, a climbing gym.
NOTE 2   An autobelay device which enables the user to belay and descent himself/herself and which conforms to this document is personal protective equipment (PPE).
NOTE 3   For mountaineering standards, see Annex E.

This part of the EN 13451 series specifies safety requirements for diving platforms, diving springboards and associated equipment in addition to the general safety requirements of EN 13451-1 and is meant to be read in conjunction with it.
The requirements of this part of the EN 13451 series take priority over those in EN 13451-1.
This part of the EN 13451 series is applicable to platforms and springboards, and associated equipment for use in classified swimming pools as specified in EN 15288-1 and EN 15288-2.