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Industrial robots and robot systems (New Edition)
Designation:CSA Z434
Source:CSA
Contact name:Ana Andronescu
Review start date:Oct 1, 2025
Review end date:Nov 30, 2025
Contact email:angelique.coyle(at)csagroup.org
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Draft Scope/Description:
This document specifies requirements for the inherently safe design, risk reduction measures and information for use of robots for an industrial environment.
This document addresses the robot as an incomplete machine.
This document is not applicable to the following uses and products:

— underwater;

— law enforcement;
— military (defence);
— airborne and space robots, including outer space;
— medical robots;
— healthcare robots;
— prosthetics and other aids for the physically impaired;
— service robots, which provide a service to a person and as such where the public can have access;
— consumer products, as this is household use to which the public can have access;
— lifting or transporting people.

NOTE 1 Requirements for robot integration and robot applications are covered in ISO 10218-2:2025.

NOTE 2 Additional hazards can be created by robot applications (e.g. welding, laser cutting, machining). These hazards are addressed during robot application design. See ISO 10218-2:2025.

This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events when used as intended and under specified conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.
This document does not cover the hazards related to:

— severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, freezer use, strong magnetic fields) outside of manufacturer’s specifications;

— underground use;
— use that has hygienic requirements;
— use in nuclear environments;
— use in potentially explosive environments;
— mobility when robots or manipulators are fixed to or part of driverless industrial trucks;
— mobility when robots or manipulators are fixed to or part of mobile platforms;
— use in environments with ionizing and non-ionizing radiation levels;
— hazardous ionizing and non-ionizing radiation;
— handling loads the nature of which can lead to dangerous situations (e.g. molten metals, acids/bases, radiating materials);
— handling or lifting or transporting people;
— when the public, all ages or non-working adults have access (e.g. service robots, consumer products).
Noise emission is generally not considered a significant hazard of the robot alone, and consequently noise is excluded from the scope of this document.
This document is not applicable to robots that are manufactured before the date of its publication.
 
This document specifies requirements for the integration of industrial robot applications and industrial robot cells. The following are addressed:

— the design, integration, commissioning, operation, maintenance, decommissioning and disposal;

— integration of machines and components;
— information for use for the design, integration, commissioning, operation, maintenance, decommissioning and disposal.
This document is not applicable to the following uses and applications of industrial robots:

— underwater;

— law enforcement;
— military (defence);
— airborne and space, including outer space;
— medical;
— healthcare of a person;
— prosthetics and other aids for the physically impaired;
— service robots, which provide a service to a person and as such the public can have access;
— consumer products, as this is household use to which the public can have access;
— lifting or transporting people;
— multi-purpose lifting devices or machinery, e.g. cranes, forklift trucks.

NOTE Applications for the automation of laboratories are not considered as medical or healthcare of a person.

This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events when used as intended and under specified conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the integrator.
This document provides basic requirements for industrial robot applications, but does not cover the hazards related to the following:

— emission of airborne noise;

— severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, freezer use, strong magnetic fields) outside of manufacturer’s specifications;
— underground use;
— use that has hygienic requirements;
— processing of any material (e.g. food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, metal);
— use in nuclear environments;
— use in potentially explosive environments;
— mobility when robots or manipulators are integrated with driverless industrial trucks;
— mobility when robots or manipulators are integrated with mobile platforms;
— use in environments with hazardous ionizing and non-ionizing radiation levels;
— hazardous ionizing and non-ionizing radiation;
— handling loads the nature of which could lead to dangerous situations (e.g. molten metals, acids/bases, radiating materials);
— when the public or non-working adults have access.
Emission of acoustic noise could be identified to be a significant hazard, but emission of noise is not covered in this document.

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