Siemens FLENDER K SH Series - The Five Safety Rules; Environmental Protection Guidelines

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BA 5846 en 05/2015
Note
In addition to any generally prescribed personal safety equipment (such as safety shoes, safety clothing,
helmet) handling the gear unit requires wearing suitable safety gloves and suitable safety glasses.
Note
The gear unit complies with the requirements in Directive 94/9/EC.
DANGER
Risk of explosion
Danger to life through ignition of any potentially explosive atmosphere while fitting or dismounting the
gear unit.
The gear unit must not be installed or dismounted whilst the environment is potentially explosive.
3.3 The five safety rules
For your personal safety and to avoid material damage, comply always with the safetyrelevant instructions
and the safety rules to standard "DIN EN 501101, Working in voltagefree status" indicated below, when
working on electrical components of the plant. Apply the five safety rules in the indicated order, before
starting work on the machine.
1) Disconnect completely.
Disconnect the auxiliary circuits, e.g. standby heating.
2) Secure against reconnection.
3) Verify that the installation is voltagefree ("dead").
4) Connect to earth and shortcircuit.
5) Cover or shield adjacent live parts.
After completion of the work the taken measures should be undone in the reverse order.
3.4 Environmental protection
• Dispose of any packaging material in accordance with regulations or separate it for recycling.
• When changing oil, the used oil must be collected in suitable containers. Any pools of oil which may
have collected should be removed at once with an oilbinding agent.
• Preservative agents should be stored separately from used oil.
• Used oil, preservative agents, oilbinding agents and oilsoaked cloths must be disposed of in
accordance with environmental legislation.
• Disposal of the gear unit after its useful life:
─ All the operating oil, preservative agent and/or cooling agent must be drained from the gear unit and
disposed of in accordance with regulations.
─ Gearunit components and/or addon parts may have to be disposed of or separated for recycling
in accordance with national regulations.