INTERNATIONAL ISO

STANDARD 20430

First edition
2020-04

Plastics and rubber machines —

Injection moulding machines — Safety
requirements
Machines pour les matières plastiques et le caoutchouc — Machines
de moulage par injection — Prescription de sécurité

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Contents Page

Foreword......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... vi
Introduction............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... vii
1 Scope.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
2 Normative references....................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms................................................................................................................................. 3
3.1 Terms and definitions........................................................................................................................................................................ 3
3.2 Abbreviated terms............................................................................................................................................................................. 11
4 Safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures................................................................11
4.1 Basic requirements........................................................................................................................................................................... 11
4.1.1 General................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
4.1.2 Start, stop and restart functions....................................................................................................................... 11
4.1.3 Emergency stop.............................................................................................................................................................. 12
4.1.4 Guards..................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1.5 ESPE in the form of light curtains................................................................................................................... 15
4.1.6 Two-hand control devices..................................................................................................................................... 15
4.1.7 Pressure-sensitive mats, floors and edges............................................................................................... 16
4.1.8 Requirements for automatic monitoring.................................................................................................. 16
4.1.9 Movements caused by gravity during production............................................................................ 17
4.2 Mould area................................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
4.2.1
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Hazards due to the closing movement of the platen on sides of the
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4.2.3 Hazards due to movements other than the closing movement of the platen
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4.2.5 Thermal hazards ............................................................................................................................................................ 24
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4.2.6 Additional safety requirements for machines with a downstroking platen............... 24
4.2.7 Additional requirements for machines where whole-body access is
possible between the interlocking guard or light curtain for the mould
area and the mould area itself............................................................................................................................ 25
4.2.8 Additional requirements for machines where whole-body access to the
mould area is possible............................................................................................................................................... 26
4.3 Clamping mechanism area or area behind the movable platen................................................................. 28
4.3.1 Basic safety requirements..................................................................................................................................... 28
4.3.2 Additional safety requirements for machines with an upstroking platen................... 28
4.3.3 Additional requirements for machines with toggle systems................................................... 29
4.4 Area of movement of cores and ejectors and their drive mechanisms outside the
mould and/or clamping mechanism areas................................................................................................................... 29
4.5 Nozzle area............................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
4.5.1 Mechanical hazards..................................................................................................................................................... 29
4.5.2 Thermal hazards............................................................................................................................................................ 30
4.6 Injection unit area.............................................................................................................................................................................. 30
4.6.1 Mechanical hazards..................................................................................................................................................... 30
4.6.2 Thermal hazards............................................................................................................................................................ 31
4.6.3 Mechanical and/or thermal hazards............................................................................................................ 32
4.7 Discharge area....................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
4.8 Safety requirements and/or protective measures against hazards not associated
with a particular area of the machine............................................................................................................................... 33
4.8.1 Hazards due to flexible hoses............................................................................................................................. 33
4.8.2 Release of fluids under pressure...................................................................................................................... 33
4.8.3 Hazards during adjustment and maintenance..................................................................................... 33
4.8.4 Electrical hazards and hazards due to electromagnetic interference.............................. 33
4.8.5 Thermal hazards............................................................................................................................................................ 34

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4.8.6 Hazards generated by noise................................................................................................................................. 34

4.8.7 Hazards generated by gases, fumes and dusts..................................................................................... 34
4.8.8 Slip, trip and fall hazards........................................................................................................................................ 35
4.8.9 Hydraulic and pneumatic systems................................................................................................................. 35
4.8.10 Power-operated guards........................................................................................................................................... 35
4.8.11 Hazards due to unintentionally interrupted forward movement of the
screw/piston..................................................................................................................................................................... 35
4.9 Additional safety requirements and/or protective measures associated with
specific machine design................................................................................................................................................................ 36
4.9.1 Shuttle-table machines/machines with sliding table/platen and turn-
table machines and carousel machines...................................................................................................... 36
4.9.2 Multi-station machines with mobile injection unit.......................................................................... 36
4.9.3 Cellular foam injection moulding machines........................................................................................... 36
4.9.4 Additional requirements for machines where the injection unit discharges
towards the operating position......................................................................................................................... 37
5 Verification of the safety requirements and/or protective measures........................................................39
6 Information for use..........................................................................................................................................................................................41
6.1 General......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
6.2 Instruction handbook..................................................................................................................................................................... 42
6.2.1 General................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
6.2.2 Emergency stop.............................................................................................................................................................. 42
6.2.3 Overall system stopping performance........................................................................................................ 42
6.2.4 Stopping time.................................................................................................................................................................... 42
6.2.5 Light curtains.................................................................................................................................................................... 42
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6.2.6 Moulds and extensions............................................................................................................................................. 42
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6.2.8 Machines with toggle systems............................................................................................................................ 43
6.2.9 Machines with a downstroking ISO 20430:2020or upstroking platen.................................................................... 43
6.2.10 Thermal hazards in the mould area
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6.2.11 Maintenance operations on machines
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6.2.12 Machines where whole-body access is possible................................................................................. 43
6.2.13 Presence detecting devices in the mould area..................................................................................... 43
6.2.14 Injection unit..................................................................................................................................................................... 43
6.2.15 Machines where the injection unit discharges towards the operating position..... 44
6.2.16 Interrupted forward movement of the screw/piston.................................................................... 44
6.2.17 Flexible hose assemblies......................................................................................................................................... 44
6.2.18 Adjustment and maintenance............................................................................................................................. 44
6.2.19 Exhaust system................................................................................................................................................................ 44
6.2.20 Non-permanent safe means of access......................................................................................................... 44
6.2.21 Designated access and working positions............................................................................................... 45
6.2.22 Cellular foam injection moulding.................................................................................................................... 45
6.2.23 Cleaning of hydraulic system............................................................................................................................... 45
6.2.24 Noise emission................................................................................................................................................................. 45
6.2.25 Splashing hazards where two-hand control devices are used............................................... 45
6.3 Marking....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
6.4 Warning signs........................................................................................................................................................................................ 46
6.5 Warning devices................................................................................................................................................................................... 46
Annex A (informative) List of significant hazards................................................................................................................................47
Annex B (normative) Protective Type I............................................................................................................................................................55
Annex C (normative) Protective Type II..........................................................................................................................................................67
Annex D (normative) Protective Type III.......................................................................................................................................................81
Annex E (normative) Two-hand control device for the mould area.............................................................................. 125
Annex F (normative) Acknowledgement system............................................................................................................................... 136
Annex G (normative) Use of proportional valves for the platen movement.......................................................... 137

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Annex H (informative) Warning signs, prohibition signs and mandatory action signs............................. 138
Annex I (normative) Noise test code............................................................................................................................................................... 142
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Foreword
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Introduction
This document is a type-C standard as stated in ISO 12100:2010.
This document is of relevance, in particular, for the following stakeholder groups representing the
market players with regard to machinery safety:
— machine manufacturers (small, medium and large enterprises);
— health and safety bodies (regulators, accident prevention organizations, market surveillance, etc.).
Others can be affected by the level of machinery safety achieved with the means of the document by the
above-mentioned stakeholder groups:
— machine distributors, resellers, rebuilders and integrators;
— machine users/employers (small, medium and large enterprises);
— machine operators/employees (e.g. trade unions, organizations for people with special needs);
— service providers, e.g. for maintenance (small, medium and large enterprises).
The above-mentioned stakeholder groups have been given the possibility to participate in the drafting
process of this document.
The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events
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type-B standards, the requirements of this type-C standard take precedence over the requirements of
the other standards for machines that have ISO been designed and built according to the requirements of
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Plastics and rubber machines — Injection moulding

machines — Safety requirements

1 Scope
This document specifies the essential safety requirements for the design and construction of injection
moulding machines for the processing of plastics and/or rubber and provides information for their
safe use.
This document is applicable only to injection moulding machines with hydraulic and/or electrical drives
for platen movement.
This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to injection
moulding machines, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are
reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Annex A) during the life cycle of the machinery (see
ISO 12100:2010, 5.4).
The following are not covered:
— machines on which the clamping unit can only be operated by the physical force of the operator;
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— compression moulding machines and transfer moulding machines;
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— direct-on sole moulding machines, unit sole and footwear component moulding machines, full shoe
and boot moulding machines;
— design of an exhaust system;
— design and construction of the mould.
NOTE Moulds and exhaust systems are not part of the machinery.

This document is not applicable to injection moulding machines which are manufactured before the
date of its publication.

2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 1402:2009, Rubber and plastics hoses and hose assemblies — Hydrostatic testing
ISO 3744:2010, Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels and sound energy levels of noise sources
using sound pressure — Engineering methods for an essentially free field over a reflecting plane
ISO 3746:2010, Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels and sound energy levels of noise sources
using sound pressure — Survey method using an enveloping measurement surface over a reflecting plane
ISO 3747:2010, Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels and sound energy levels of noise sources
using sound pressure — Engineering/survey methods for use in situ in a reverberant environment

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ISO 4413:2010, Hydraulic fluid power — General rules and safety requirements for systems and their
components
ISO 4414:2010, Pneumatic fluid power — General rules and safety requirements for systems and their
components
ISO 4871:1996, Acoustics — Declaration and verification of noise emission values of machinery and
equipment
ISO 7751:2016, Rubber and plastics hoses and hose assemblies — Ratios of proof and burst pressure to
maximum working pressure
ISO 11201:2010, Acoustics — Noise emitted by machinery and equipment — Determination of emission
sound pressure levels at a work station and at other specified positions in an essentially free field over a
reflecting plane with negligible environmental corrections
ISO 11202:2010, Acoustics — Noise emitted by machinery and equipment — Determination of emission
sound pressure levels at a work station and at other specified positions applying approximate environmental
corrections
ISO 11204:2010, Acoustics — Noise emitted by machinery and equipment — Determination of emission
sound pressure levels at a work station and at other specified positions applying accurate environmental
corrections
ISO 12100:2010, Safety of machinery — General principles for design — Risk assessment and risk reduction

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ISO 13732-1:2006, Ergonomics of the thermal environment — Methods for the assessment of human
responses to contact with surfaces — Part 1: Hot surfaces
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ISO 13849-1:2015, Safety of machinery — Safety-related parts of control systems — Part 1: General
principles for design ISO 20430:2020
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ISO 13849-2:2012, Safety of machinery — Safety-related parts of control systems — Part 2: Validation
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ISO 13850:2015, Safety of machinery — Emergency stop function — Principles for design
ISO 13851:2002, Safety of machinery — Two-hand control devices — Functional aspects and design
principles
ISO 13855:2010, Safety of machinery — Positioning of safeguards with respect to the approach speeds of
parts of the human body
ISO 13856-1:2013, Safety of machinery — Pressure-sensitive protective devices — Part 1: General principles
for design and testing of pressure-sensitive mats and pressure-sensitive floors
ISO 13856-2:2013, Safety of machinery — Pressure-sensitive protective devices — Part 2: General
principles for design and testing of pressure-sensitive edges and pressure-sensitive bars
ISO 13857:2008, Safety of machinery — Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper
and lower limbs
ISO 14118:2017, Safety of machinery — Prevention of unexpected start-up
ISO 14119:2013, Safety of machinery — Interlocking devices associated with guards — Principles for
design and selection
ISO 14120:2015, Safety of machinery — Guards — General requirements for the design and construction of
fixed and movable guards
ISO 14122-1:2016, Safety of machinery — Permanent means of access to machinery — Part 1: Choice of
fixed means and general requirements of access

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ISO 14122-2:2016, Safety of machinery — Permanent means of access to machinery — Part 2: Working
platforms and walkways
ISO 14122-3:2016, Safety of machinery — Permanent means of access to machinery — Part 3: Stairs,
stepladders and guard-rails
ISO 14122-4:2016, Safety of machinery — Permanent means of access to machinery — Part 4: Fixed ladders
IEC 60204-1:2016, Safety of machinery — Electrical equipment of machines — Part 1: General requirements
IEC 60947-5-3:2013, Low-voltage switchgear and controlgear — Part 5-3: Control circuit devices
and switching elements — Requirements for proximity devices with defined behaviour under fault
conditions (PDDB)
IEC 61496-1:2012, Safety of machinery — Electro-sensitive protective equipment — Part 1: General
requirements and tests
IEC 61496-2:2013, Safety of machinery — Electro-sensitive protective equipment — Part 2: Particular
requirements for equipment using active opto-electronic protective devices (AOPDs)
IEC 61496-3:2008, Safety of machinery — Electro-sensitive protective equipment — Part 3: Particular
requirements for active opto-electronic protective devices responsive to diffuse Reflection (AOPDDR)
IEC 61800-5-1:2007, Adjustable speed electrical power drive systems — Part 5-1: Safety requirements —
Electrical, thermal and energy
IEC 61800-5-2:2016, Adjustable speed electrical power drive systems — Part 5-2: Safety Requirements —
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3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
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3.1.1
injection moulding machine
machine for the cyclic production of moulded parts from plastics and/or rubber
Note 1 to entry: The material is injected through a nozzle into a mould (3.1.2) containing one or more cavities in
which the article is formed.

Note 2 to entry: An injection moulding machine essentially consists of one or more clamping units (3.1.6), one or
more injection units (3.1.8), drive and control systems.

Note 3 to entry: Examples of horizontal and vertical injection moulding machine are shown in Annex A.

3.1.2
mould
exchangeable part consisting of two or more halves clamped on the platens of the machine in which the
material is injected

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3.1.3
ejector
driven component (e.g. pin with linear movement) inside a mould (3.1.2) used for the ejection of the
moulded part(s) out of the opened mould
3.1.4
core
driven component inside a mould (3.1.2) for carrying out mould functions, e.g. enabling undercuts in
the moulded part
3.1.5
mould area
area between the platens where the mould (3.1.2) is fixed
3.1.6
clamping unit
part of the machine that holds, opens and closes the mould (3.1.2)
3.1.7
clamping mechanism area
area which comprises mechanisms for the movement of the movable platen and/or the application of
the clamping force
3.1.8
injection unit
unit for processing (plasticizing and/or homogenizing) and delivering material through a nozzle
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carousel machine
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machine consisting of two or more clamping units (3.1.6) mounted on a carousel in either a vertical or
horizontal configuration to index on one or moreISO injection units (3.1.8)
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Figure 1 — Example of a carousel machine, shown without guards

3.1.10
shuttle-table machine
machine with a sliding table/platen
machine designed to contain one or more parts of moulds (3.1.2) attached to a sliding table/platen
Note 1 to entry: The table/platen indexes the parts of the mould by a sliding movement between the loading/
unloading station and the injection position.

Note 2 to entry: See Figure 2.

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Figure 2 — Examples of shuttle-table machines (two stations left; single station right), shown
without guards for the movements of the table
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Note 1 to entry: The table indexes the parts of the mould by a rotary movement between the loading/unloading
station and the injection position.

Note 2 to entry: See Figure 3.

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Figure 3 — Example of a turn-table machine, shown without guards for the movements of
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3.1.12
multi-station machine with mobile injection unit
machine consisting of a mobile injection unit (3.1.8) which indexes between two or more stationary
clamping units (3.1.6)
Note 1 to entry: See Figures 4 and 5.

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