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This document provides guidelines for the characterization of native species and products based on native species, which have been collected, harvested and/or processed, to enable the establishment of minimum quality and safety requirements considering sustainable management of biodiversity. A special focus is on biodiversity protection along all steps of the value chain of those products. Characterization of native species and products allows to determine requirements that have not been considered, providing this information to interested parties, including farmers, producers, exporters, importers and authorities, as well as consumers and users. This document applies to native species and products based on native species from plants, algae and fungi collected or harvested. This document does not apply to native animal species and wood products.

This document specifies minimum requirements for achieving compatibility between the various items of personal protective equipment (PPE) worn by firefighters and who are at risk of exposure to high levels of heat and/or flame while carrying out firefighting activities, including those associated with fighting fires in and around structures (i.e. hot zones). This document includes examples of physical compatibility, thermal compatibility, liquid compatibility, particulate compatibility and ergonomic compatibility. The requirements specified in ISO /TS 20141Personal safety — Personal protective equipment —Guidelines on compatibility testing of PPE are refenced by this Standard and are to be applied to achieve the required compatibility of PPE. The requirements for the use of different items of PPE by firefighters may be different in each firefighting organization and will be determined by an appropriate risk assessment. Therefore, according to the risk assessment, each firefighting organization shall ensure that the compatibility of PPE aligns with the identified risks and hazards. However, additional tests should be implemented if required, to ensure overall compliance with ISO 20141.

This document provides a fire engineering application relative to the fire resistance assessment of a multi-storey timber building according to the methodology given in ISO 24679-1. In an attempt to facilitate the understanding of the design process presented herein, this document follows the same step-by-step procedure as that given in ISO 24679-1.

The fire safety engineering approach is applied to a multi-storey timber building with respect to fire resistance and considers specific design fire scenarios, which impact the fire resistance of structural members.

A component-level (member analysis) approach to fire performance analysis is adopted in this worked example. Such an approach generally provides a more conservative design than a system-level (global structural) analysis or an analysis of parts of the structure where interaction between components can be assessed. An advantage of the component-level approach is that calculations can be done with the use of simple analytical models or spreadsheets. Advanced modelling using computational fluid dynamics is presented to replicate an actual office cubicle fire scenario and for assessing timber contribution to fire growth, intensity and duration, if any. The thermo-structural behaviour of the timber elements is assessed through advanced modelling using the finite element method.

The fire design scenarios chosen in this document are only used for the evaluation of the structural fire resistance. They are not applicable for assessing, for example, smoke production, tenability conditions or other life safety conditions.

This document covers the design of PE and PP rigid packaging with respect to compatibility of the design with the collecting, sorting, and recycling processes. Packaging constituents and packaging components made of other materials than PE and PP are also covered by this standard as they need to be evaluated on compatibility with polymer recycling.

This document specifies the safety requirements and measures for horizontal cutting cross-cut sawing machines with one saw unit (radial arm saws) with manual loading and/or unloading of the workpiece and capable of continuous production use, hereinafter referred to also as “machines”.

This document specifies the safety requirements and measures for single blade automatic and semi-automatic up-cutting cross-cut sawing machines, capable of continuous production use, hereinafter referred to also as “machines”.

This document specifies the safety requirements and measures for double blade circular sawing machines for cross-cutting with integrated feed of the cutting-stroke, with manual loading and/or unloading of the workpiece and capable of continuous production use, hereinafter referred to also as “machines”.

This document establishes the terms, definitions, methodologies, and calculations that are necessary for the recovery of waste from plastic products and materials labelled as industrially compostable (hereafter referred to as compostable plastic waste) through organic recycling. The document identifies the different types of organic recycling technologies used in the recovery and subsequent recycling of industrially compostable plastics waste arising from pre-consumer and post-consumer sources. This document also establishes the requirements and calculations to be considered in evaluating organic recycling inputs and outputs and determining output classifications for the recycling operation and the downstream integration points.

The document also outlines general quality requirements to be applied in all steps of the recovery process, and provides general recommendations for inclusion in material standards, test standards and product specifications. The process stages, requirements, recommendations, and terminology presented in this document are intended to be of general applicability.

This document does not establish test methods and criteria for the definition of the organic recyclability (e.g. compostability) of plastic materials and products.

This document refers to plastic waste deriving from products that have been classified as suitable for recovery through organic recycling by the relevant reference standards (e.g., ISO 17088, ISO 18606) and therefore labelled as industrially compostable. These products are generally called “industrially compostable” (e.g. compostable bag, compostable tableware) meaning “suitable for organic recycling”, independently of the final treatment technology (whether it is true aerobic composting, or a combination of anaerobic digestion and composting, or only anaerobic digestion).

This document does not address home composting because this gardening practice cannot be classified as recycling.

ISO 5659 specifies a method of measuring smoke production from the exposed surface of specimens of materials or composites. It is applicable to specimens that have an essentially flat surface and do not exceed 25 mm in thickness when placed in a horizontal orientation and subjected to specified levels of thermal irradiance in a closed cabinet with or without the application of a pilot flame. This method of test is applicable to all plastics. It is intended that the values of optical density determined by this test be taken as specific to the specimen or assembly material in the form and thickness tested and are not to be considered inherent, fundamental properties. The test is intended primarily for use in research and development and fire safety engineering in buildings, trains, ships, etc. and not as a basis for ratings for building codes or other purposes. No basis is provided for predicting the density of smoke that can be generated by the materials upon exposure to heat and flame under other (actual) exposure conditions. This test procedure excludes the effect of irritants on the eye.

This document specifies electrical and flammability safety requirements for general purpose conveyor belts not intended for use in underground installations and a means of categorizing conveyor belts in terms of the level of safety sought in their end use application. This document does not provide electrical safety requirements for volume resistance which may be measured by the methods in EN ISO 21178 and which is relevant to some types of light conveyor belts. This document is not applicable to conveyor belts which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CEN. NOTE 1 Directive 94/9/EC concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres can be applicable to the type of machine or equipment covered by this document. The present standard is not intended to provide means of complying with the essential health and safety requirements of Directive 94/9/EC, this being covered in EN 14973. NOTE 2 prEN 12882 is not a product standard but is intended to help users of conveyor belts to select the required electrical and flammability safety properties needed following a suitable risk assessment. No requirements are, therefore, included for marking, information to be supplied, etc., these matters being covered in relevant product standards such as EN ISO 14890 and EN ISO 1523-1.

This document specifies the procedure for a quantitative determination of major and trace element concentrations in homogeneous solid waste, soil, soil-like material and sludge by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometry or wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometry using a calibration with matrix-matched standards. This document is applicable for the following elements: Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Br, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ag, Cd, Sn, Sb, Te, I, Cs, Ba, Ta, W, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi, Th and U. Concentration levels between approximately 0,000 1 % and 100 % can be determined depending on the element and the instrument used.

This document 'Service model for social care alarms', provides a framework and recommendations for the roles and responsibilities of the different actors in the social care alarm service chain. The following topics are included in this document:

1. Service user perspective: objectives, roles, needs and processes

2.  Process description for the service chain, including: — service user experience, installation and instruction, use, service accessability, response arrangements, access management — marketing, sales, referral, review and termination — customer billing and income collection

3. Good practice of service provision: quality and risk management, including security, privacy and requirements for infrastructure.

Technology and organization structure independence are important features of this document, the service model for social care alarms. This document contains “Requirements” and “Recommendations”. Requirements describe good practice that shall be achieved by all service providers modelling this document. Recommendations describe good practice that is not universally accepted across Europe and which service providers may wish to model.

Specifies an instrumental method for the routine determination of the specific electrical conductivity in an aqueous extract of soil. The determination is carried out to obtain an indication of the content of water-soluble electrolytes in a soil.

This document defines sampling conventions for airborne particle size fractions for use in assessing the health relevant exposure from inhalation of particles in the workplace. Conventions are defined for the inhalable, thoracic and respirable fractions. The sampling conventions only describe the inhalation of particles and their penetration in the respiratory tract as governed by inertia (impaction). Deposition in the respiratory tract by other mechanisms, e.g. diffusion, is not considered in this document. The sampling conventions defined in this document apply to both indoor and outdoor workplaces. The assumptions on which the sampling conventions are defined are given in Clause 6. The convention chosen for a specific application will depend on the region of the health effect of the component of interest in the airborne particles (see Clause 5). The conventions can be used with whatever metric is of interest, including particle count, length, surface area, volume or mass. The metric depends on the kind of particle analysis carried out on the sampled aerosol fraction. The health-related fraction concentrations defined in this document are often expressed in mass of the sampled particles per volume of sampled air in order to compare with mass-based occupational exposure limit values. The conventions are not applicable in association with limit values expressed in a different metric, e.g. for fibre limit values defined in terms of the length and diameter of airborne fibres and the ratio of the two (aspect ratio), unless a measurement procedure explicitly requires that a specific health related size fraction is to be sampled/collected [13]. The main purpose of this document is to provide agreement on the particle size fractions to sample and their definitions. Sampling is generally carried out using dedicated samplers, for which there is no need to measure the aerodynamic size distribution of the airborne particles to be sampled. Samplers including a separation into one or more relevant sampling conventions(s) are currently available. In general, no assumptions or pre-knowledge are needed on the number of modes, modal diameter(s) or width of the particle aerodynamic size distribution of the airborne particles to be sampled. Because there is a wide variation from one person to another in the probability of particle inhalation, deposition, reaction to deposition and clearance, this document is not applicable for determining the deposited dose taken up by an individual worker. The conventions are primarily intended for determining workers’ exposure to airborne particles by sampling the airborne particles. This document is not applicable to large particles emitted at high speed that are travelling under the momentum from their emission, instead of being carried by the air (airborne) and aspirated into humans and aerosol samplers by their suction (see Annex B).

This document specifies the evaluation of the fire performance of water mist systems for shopping areas, adjacent storage areas, and similar areas. This document is only applicable for horizontal, solid, flat ceilings with heights of 2,6 m and above. This document does not cover storage with movable racks or shelves.

This document specifies a process to design, implement, maintain and monitor BNG outcomes through the lifecycle of spatially explicit development projects and until the expected outcome on biodiversity has been realized.

It does not cover the detailed requirements associated with the delivery of biodiversity enhancements or management. It provides a framework to demonstrate that a project has followed a process that is based on The BBOP Principles on Biodiversity Offsets and aligns with the vision, goals and targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Global Biodiversity Framework. Complying with the requirements within this document is to follow a process to achieve BNG that is based on good practice.

This document is for any sector of industry, including residential, mixed-use, energy, water, extractive industry, transport, communications agriculture, forestry and infrastructure. It is for any scale of project from individual house-builds to larger developments and will be of use by anybody involved in development including ecologists, planners, biologists, auditors, developers, conservation organisations, land managers, planning authorities and organisations and investors. It can also be used by land managers aiming to generate BNG through management of their land. Hereafter the term “project” refers to both development projects and land management activities.

This document covers terrestrial and freshwater habitats, and intertidal habitats down to the mean low water mark as the process and methods to deliver net gain for marine habitats are different from the approach set out here. This document is applicable for projects that affect biodiversity and those with limited or no impact on biodiversity, as well as projects aiming to achieve BNG on- and/ or off-site.

It first sets out requirements that apply throughout the BNG process; these requirements are in Clause 5.

Clause 6 to Clause 9 contain requirements for each of these stages of the BNG process:

a) Clause 6: Preparation

b) Clause 7: Environmental assessment and Design

c) Clause 8: Implementation

d) Clause 9: Maintenance and management

A project may involve requirements to achieve BNG from, for example, a planning requirement or compliance with legislation. This document covers a process to achieve BNG, notwithstanding any such requirements. It does not infer compliance with any planning condition, legislation or statutory requirement, and is independent from any mandatory or legislative requirement for BNG.

Furthermore, following the BNG process in this document does not substitute the requirements to assess ecological beneficial and adverse impacts and report them, e.g., as part of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Rather, this document builds on, and is not intended to repeat, existing good practice for biodiversity surveys, impact assessments, mitigation and compensation for projects.

Projects with adverse impacts on irreplaceable biodiversity features, such as irreplaceable habitats cannot achieve BNG. These projects can follow the process in this document for biodiversity features that are not irreplaceable but cannot claim project-wide achievement of BNG. These projects need to transparently and comprehensively refer to the adverse impacts on irreplaceable biodiversity features in communications and reports. Projects that will impact irreplaceable biodiversity features areas should be actively avoided.

The objective of this document is to characterize the gaseous effluents tritium and carbon-14 generated by nuclear facilities during operation and decommissioning and occurring in the same chemical species as hydrogen and carbon, e. g. as water vapour (HTO), hydrogen gas (HT, TT), carbon dioxide (14CO2), carbon monoxide (14CO), methane (CH3T, 14CH4). It concerns measurements on samples that are representative of a certain volume stream or volume of discharge during a given period of time and of the corresponding volume discharged. The result is therefore expressed in becquerels. This document applies to samples that were obtained by sampling methods according to ISO 20041-1 and describes — analysis methods for the determination of tritium and carbon-14 activities by liquid scintillation counting and — calculation methods to determine the tritium activities discharged as tritiated water vapour (HTO) and tritium in other chemical compounds (non-HTO) as well as carbon-14 activities discharged as carbon dioxide (14CO2) and carbon-14 in other chemical compounds (non-14CO2). This document does not apply to tritium and carbon-14 activity concentrations in the environmental air, e. g. in the vicinity of nuclear installations. The accountability rules of the activities discharged necessary for the establishment of regulatory reports do not fall within the scope of this document and are the responsibility of the regulatory bodies.

ISO 22262-2:2014 specifies procedures for quantification of asbestos mass fractions below approximately 5 %, and quantitative determination of asbestos in vermiculite, other industrial minerals and commercial products that incorporate these minerals.

ISO 22262-2:2014 is applicable to the quantitative analysis of:

a) any material for which the estimate of asbestos mass fraction obtained using ISO 22262-1 is deemed to be of insufficient precision to reliably classify the regulatory status of the material, or for which it is considered necessary to obtain further evidence to demonstrate the absence of asbestos;

b) resilient floor tiles, asphaltic materials, roofing felts and any other materials in which asbestos is embedded in an organic matrix;

c) wall and ceiling plasters, with or without aggregate;

d) mineral products such as wollastonite, dolomite, calcite, talc or vermiculite, and commercial products containing these minerals.

It is not the intent of ISO 22262 to provide instruction in the fundamental microscopical and analytical techniques.

This document specifies the security requirements for the design of checkout furniture in self-service stores, regardless of the size of the store. Safety requirements apply to both the operator and the public. This document applies to all types of checkout furniture equipped with electrically powered conveyor(s). It does not deal with computer equipment related to cash register furniture. This document covers all significant hazardous phenomena, situations or events, with the exception of..., which are relevant to cash registers when used normally and when they are subject to reasonably foreseeable misuse by the manufacturer. (Risks covered: mechanical, electrical (excluding IT, including controls), electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), ergonomics (refer to standard NF X 35-701 which must evolve into a European standard), hygiene (food contact, REACH, materials, cleaning products), recyclability, fire, noise).