This European Standard specifies the safety requirements, and their verification for the design and construction of horizontal and vertical wedge splitters, designed for splitting logs for firewood, irrespective of the nature of the power source used. Splitting process of the wedge splitter is designed to be activated by one person only, but it is possible that more than one operator is working with the machine e.g. for loading and unloading the machine. In addition, it specifies the type of information on safe working practices to be provided by the manufacturer. This document deals with all the significant hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous relevant to these machines when they are used as intended and under the conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseable by the manufacturer (see Table 1). This document is not applicable to machines that can be used for cutting and splitting the firewood. This document is not applicable to wedge splitters which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CEN.