<p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">This International Standard deals with the safety of electric powered walk-behind and hand-held lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers, with cutting element(s) of non-metallic filament line or freely pivoting non-metallic cutter(s), with a kinetic energy of not more than 10 J each, used by a standing operator for cutting grass, their rated voltage not being not more than 250 V for a.c. or 50 V d.c.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">In this standard, hand-held and walk-behind lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers are referred to collectively as trimmer(s).</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">So far as is practicable, this standard deals with the common hazards presented by trimmers which are encountered by all persons in the normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse of the trimmers.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;">NOTE 101 Attention is drawn to the fact that in many countries additional requirements are specified by the national health authorities, the national authorities responsible for the protection of labour, the national water supply authorities.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">This standard does not apply to</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- scissor type or lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers with cutting means other than those described above;</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- self-propelled lawn trimmers or lawn edge trimmers;</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- lawn trimmers or lawn edge trimmers which do not have a distance of at least 600 mm between the cutting means control and the cutting head;</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">- battery-powered trimmers fitted with batteries that have to be removed for charging.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;">NOTE 102 Requirements for tools with this type of battery can be found in Annexes K and L of IEC 60745-1.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">EMC and environmental aspects, except noise, have not been considered in this standard.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;">NOTE 103 The method of calculating the kinetic energy for the purposes of this standard is given in 22.103.</span></p>
