This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to two-roll mills for the processing of rubber and/or plastics, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).

This European Standard covers two-roll mills as defined in 3.1.

This European Standard does not deal with the design of a local exhaust ventilation system that may be necessary in specific applications of the machine not known by the manufacturer.

This European Standard is not applicable to two-roll mills manufactured before the date of its publication as a European Standard.