Foreword

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical Committee EL- 002 - Safety of Household and Similar Electrical Appliances and Small Power Transformers to supersede AS/NZS 60745.2.17:2003 and its amendments three years from the date of its publication. During this period it is anticipated that regulatory authorities will approve routers and trimmers to either standard.

The objective of this Standard is to provide manufacturers, designers, regulatory authorities, testing laboratories and similar organizations with safety requirements for the design, manufacture and testing of routers and trimmers which can form the basis for approval by regulatory authorities.

The text IEC 60745-2-17 Ed 3, prepared by IEC Technical Committee 116, was submitted to the Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Combined Procedure (dual public comment and committee vote) for adoption of the IEC standard as a Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand joint standard.

This Standard is an adoption with national modifications of the third edition of IEC 60745-2- 17, Hand-held motor-operated electric tools – Safety – Part 2-17: Particular requirements for routers and trimmers. It has been varied as indicated to take account of Australian and New Zealand conditions.

This part 2 has to be used in conjunction with the latest edition of AS/NZS 60745.1 Hand-held motor-operated electric tools – Safety – Part 1: General requirements and its amendments. It was established on the basis of the 2009 edition of that standard. Amendments and revisions of Part 1 have also to be taken into account and the dates when such changes become applicable will be stated in the relevant amendment or revision of Part 1.

This part 2 supplements or modifies the corresponding clauses of AS/NZS 60745.1 so as to convert it into the Australian/New Zealand Standard: Safety requirements for routers and trimmers.

When a particular subclause of Part 1 is not mentioned in this part 2, that subclause applies as far as is reasonable. When this standard states "addition", "modification" or "replacement", the relevant text of Part 1 is to be adapted accordingly.

NOTE 1 The following numbering system is used: – subclauses, tables and figures that are numbered starting from 101 are additional to those in Part 1;

– unless notes are in a new subclause or involve notes in Part 1, they are numbered starting from 101, including those in a replaced clause or subclause;

– additional annexes are lettered AA, BB, etc.;

– subclauses, notes and annexes that are additional to those in the IEC standard are prefixed with the letters AZ.

NOTE 2 The following print types are used:

– requirements: in roman type;

– test specifications: in italic type;

– notes: in small roman type.

Words in bold in the text are defined in Clause 3. p

NOTE 3 In this document, p is used in the margin to indicate instructions for preparing a consolidated version.

The essential safety requirements in AS/NZS 38201 that could be applicable to requirements for routers and trimmers are covered by this standard.

The national variations to the IEC 60745-2-17 Ed 3 form the New Zealand national variations for purposes of the IECEE scheme for recognition of results of testing to standards for safety of electrical equipment (the CB scheme).

There are no national variations from the IEC Standard from which this standard is adopted, other than those listed in Annex ZZ to AS/NZS 60745.1.