This document specifies general requirements and their test methods for dusters for applying formulated products in the form of dust with regard to minimizing the potential risk of environmental contamination during use.
Hand operated portable dusters (knapsack) are not included in this document.
This document deals with all the significant environmental hazards related to the duster, namely:
- hazards due to involuntary or unnecessary application of PPP;
- hazards due to point pollution;
- hazards due to losses to other areas than the target;
- hazards due to maintenance, servicing and cleaning operations;
- hazards due to inspections, such as unavailability of means to connect measuring instruments.
This document does not deal with safety requirements for protection of the operator only.
NOTE General safety requirements to protect the operator are covered by EN ISO 4254-1.
This document is not applicable to dusters manufactured before the date of its publication.