Paragraph 5 Building site circular saw bench

A hand-fed machine weighing less than 200 kg fitted with a single circular sawblade (other than a scoring saw) with a diameter of 350 mm or more, up to a maximum diameter of 500 mm, which is fixed during the normal cutting operation, and a horizontal table, all or part of which is fixed during operation. The sawblade is mounted on a horizontal non-tilting spindle, the position of which remains stationary during machining. The machine may have any of the following features:

• — the facility for the sawblade to be raised and lowered through the table

• — machine frame below the table may be open or enclosed

• — the saw may be fitted with an additional, manually operated travelling table (not adjacent to the sawblade).