Personal Protective Equipment | Monthly bulletin | November 2019
Standards Updates
Below a summary table with some recent standards updates and upcoming dates of withdrawal (non-exhaustive):
(*) Date of withdrawal: latest date by which national standards conflicting with an EN (and HD for CENELEC) have to be withdrawn.
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Reference |
Title |
Date of Withdrawal (*) |
Supersedes |
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Protective clothing for users of hand-held chainsaws - Part 2: Performance requirements and test methods for leg protectors (ISO 11393-2:2018) |
2020-03-31 |
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Protective clothing for users of hand-held chainsaws - Part 4: Performance requirements and test methods for protective gloves (ISO 11393-4:2018) |
2020-03-31 |
Below you will find a monthly summary of product recalls and alerts in Europe (Source “RAPEX”).
Europe
RAPEX (European Commission Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products – Alerts reported by EU national authorities).
The following 1 alerts regarding Personal Protective equipment have been reported, from week 39 until week 42 of 2019.
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Type of Risk |
Number of alerts |
Notes |
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Injuries |
2 |
Ropes (equipment to protect against falls): The eye of the rope might not have been properly spliced |
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Rope Wrench Kit: The personal fall protection equipment has not been tested according to its intended use. The scope of the applied harmonised standards does not cover essential aspects of the system’s scope. Furthermore, the instructions for use are incomplete |
