26/30521497 DC

This standard 26/30521497 DC BS EN 16985 Booths for application of coating material - Safety requirements is classified in these ICS categories:

• 87.100 Paint coating equipment

This document specifies requirements against all significant hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events relevant to booths for the application of coating material, when they are used as intended, including reasonably foreseeable misuse. See Annex A for significant hazards. This document also specifies recommendations for minimizing environmental impact of booths for the application of coating material. See Annex F for recommendations for minimizing environmental impact and energy usage. Interfaces between booths and other machinery used in application of coating material are given in Figure 1. The specific significant risks related to the use of this machinery with foodstuff and pharmaceutical products are not dealt with in this document. The specific significant risks related to drying operation of combined booths for application and drying of coating material are not dealt with in this document, but in EN 1539:2015. [Figure 1] This document is not applicable to: - spaces for application of coating material consisting only of an extraction wall; - platforms attached to booths (e.g. for touch-up jobs); - booths for application of flock (see EN 50223:2015); - airflow requirements for booths with airflow from horizontal inlet to vertical extraction. This document is not applicable to machinery manufactured before the date of its publication as European Standard.