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ISO/ASTM 52938-1:2025

Additive manufacturing of metals — Environment, health and safety — Part 1: Safety requirements for PBF-LB machines

Standard Details

This document deals with the technical requirements and the means for their verification for additive manufacturing (AM) machines using a bed of metallic powder, pyrophoric feedstock excluded, and a laser herein designated as machine.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events during all phases of the life of the machine (ISO 12100:2010, 5.4), as listed in Annex A, caused by AM machines using a bed of metallic powder and a laser when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.

This document does not deal with hazards which can occur:

     during the design and construction phase of the laser beam powder ped fusion (PBF-LB) machine itself;

     operating in potentially explosive atmospheres.

This document does not apply to technologies other than AM metals PBF-LB.

This document is not applicable to machines manufactured before the date of its publication.

General Information

Status : Published
Standard Type: Main
Document No: ISO/ASTM 52938-1:2025
Document Year: 2025
Pages: 30
Edition: 1
  • ICS:
  • 13.100 Occupational safety. Industrial hygiene
  • 13.110 Safety of machinery

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