oSIST prEN ISO 27281:2025

Safety requirements - Vehicle washing systems (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)

This document contains technical safety requirements for the design, equipment and testing of brushless vehicle washing systems and vehicle washing systems with brushes for, indoor and outdoor operation, i.e. roll-over vehicle washing systems, vehicle washing tunnels, manually movable vehicle washing facilities.
NOTE 1   Annex D covers the determination and control of Legionella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa concentration in stationary vehicle wash systems. Additionally, it can be applied to all vehicle washing systems that can form aerosols due to their cleaning systems.
This document does not apply to hand-guided high pressure cleaners which are covered by
EN 60335 2-79:2012, to water recycling systems, buildings and doors for entering the traffic zone, for powered ride-on machines and powered walk-behind machines with a traction drive.
This document does not apply to bicycle cleaning systems.
NOTE 2   Signals (example doors, lighting systems) can be provided by the vehicle washing system.
This document contains requirements for the protection of persons and objects from accidents and damages during use and operation of vehicle washing systems.
Persons to be protected are:
-   operators,
-   maintenance and monitoring personnel,
-   persons in the vicinity of vehicle washing systems,
-   persons sitting in the vehicle during cleaning.
Objects to be protected are:
-   vehicles.
Significant hazards associated with vehicle washing systems are listed in Clause 4. These hazards have been established by a risk assessment according to EN ISO 12100 and require measures to eliminate the hazard or to reduce the risk. These measures are specified in Clause 5 of this document.
The safety requirements assume that vehicle washing systems are regularly maintained by trained and competent persons according to the manufacturer's information and that the operators, with the exception of users of self-service washing systems, have been instructed in the handling of vehicle washing systems.

Sicherheitsanforderungen - Fahrzeugwaschanlagen (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)

Exigences de sécurité - Systèmes de lavage de véhicules (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)

Varnostne zahteve - Sistemi za pranje vozil (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 20-Oct-2025
• ICS: 43.180 - Diagnostic, maintenance and test equipment
• Technical Committee: I13 - Imaginarni 13
• Current Stage: 4020 - Public enquire (PE) (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 18-Aug-2025
• Due Date: 05-Jan-2026
• Directive: 2006/42/EC - Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast)
• Directive: 2023/1230 - Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2023 on machinery and repealing Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 73/361/EEC (Text with EEA relevance)
• Mandate: M/396 - Mandate to CEN and Cenelec for standardisation in the field of machinery
• Mandate: M/605 - COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 20.1.2025 on a standardisation request to the European Committee for Standardization and to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization as regards machinery and related products in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 of the European Parliament and of the Council
• Ref Project: prEN ISO 27281 - Safety requirements - Vehicle washing systems (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)

Relations

• Revises: SIST EN 17281:2021 - Safety requirements - Vehicle cleaning equipment
• Effective Date: 08-Apr-2024

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-oktober-2025
Varnostne zahteve - Sistemi za pranje vozil (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)
Safety requirements - Vehicle washing systems (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)
Sicherheitsanforderungen - Fahrzeugwaschanlagen (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)
Exigences de sécurité - Systèmes de lavage de véhicules (ISO/DIS 27281:2025)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN ISO 27281
ICS:
43.180 Diagnostična, vdrževalna in Diagnostic, maintenance and
preskusna oprema test equipment
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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Contents Page
European foreword .vi
Introduction .vii
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 2
4 List of hazards. 5
5 Safety requirements and safety measures . 5
5.1 General safety requirements .5
5.1.1 Shearing and crushing points at power-operFated movable parts .5
5.1.2 Tripping and twisting points .5
5.1.3 Gears and sprocket wheels .6
5.1.4 Belt and rope drives .6
5.1.5 Supporting means .6
5.1.6 Horizontal and vertical system components .6
5.1.7 Guides/guide pulleys .6
5.1.8 Guiding system.6
5.1.9 Positioning system .6
5.1.10 Wall and ceiling rails .7
5.1.11 Ground rails .7
5.1.12 Protruding components .7
5.1.13 Accessible covers .7
5.1.14 Treads .7
5.1.15 Vehicle wheel guides .7
5.1.16 Vehicle displacement devices .7
5.1.17 Liquid jets at vehicle wash systems.7
5.1.18 Monitoring .8
5.1.19 Electrical equipment .8
5.1.20 Fluid hydraulics equipment .8
5.1.21 Fluid pneumatics equipment .8
5.1.22 Control devices.8
5.1.23 Actuators of control devices .8
5.1.24 Actuators for limit switches .9
5.1.25 Supply disconnecting devices .9
5.1.26 Emergency stop equipment .9
5.1.27 Automatic safeguard .9
5.1.28 Electrical cables .9
5.1.29 Noise reduction . . .9
5.1.30 Hot surfaces .10
5.1.31 Surfaces and edges .10
5.1.32 Washing additives .11
5.2 Additional requirements for systems for the cleaning of rail vehicles .11
5.2.1 Slewing platforms .11
5.2.2 Rigid platforms .11
5.2.3 Overhead contact line .11
5.3 Additional requirements for roll-over wash systems .11
5.3.1 Final positions of the travel area .11
5.3.2 Toppling safeguard .11
5.3.3 Driving wheels of the travelling mechanisms .11
5.3.4 Front surface of the travelling mechanisms .11
5.3.5 Crushing points at wheel guides . 12
5.3.6 Operator cabins for roll-over wash systems for special vehicles. 12
5.4 Additional requirements for vehicle wash tunnels and vehicle conveying systems . 12
5.4.1 Drawing-in points . 12

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5.4.2 Horizontal deflection of the conveyor chain . 12
5.4.3 Vertical deflection of the conveyor chain . 12
5.4.4 Enclosures for the entry and exit openings . 12
5.4.5 Nip points of the conveyor chain . 12
5.4.6 Protection against unauthorized access . 13
5.5 Additional requirements for manually movable vehicle wash systems . 13
5.5.1 Stability .
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