ISO/ASTM 52938-1:2025

ISO/ASTM 52938-1:2025

May 2025
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Additive manufacturing of metals - Environment, health and safety - Part 1: Safety requirements for PBF-LB machines

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.

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Gestion des risques et SST, Sécurité, QSE

Publication date

May 2025

Number of pages

30 p.

Reference

ISO/ASTM 52938-1:2025

ICS Codes

25.030   Additive manufacturing
13.100   Occupational safety. Industrial hygiene
13.110   Safety of machinery

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

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.

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