Solon Systems Limited are Suppliers of Woodworking machinery guards for circular saws, routers, thicknessing planers. Custom built guards on request.

Certain types of woodworking machinery are required by law to stop within 10 seconds of activating the emergency stop circuit.

The Woodworking Approved Code of Practice requires that the following machines are now braked.

• circular saw benches;
• dimension saws;
• powered and hand-fed cross-cut saws (unless there is no risk of contact with the blade during rundown);
• single-end and double-end tenoning machines; and
• combined machines incorporating a circular saw and/or tenoning attachment.
• narrow band saws;
• re-saws;
• vertical spindle moulding machines (unless fitted with a manual or foot-operated brake);
• hand-fed routing machines;
• thicknessing machines;
  planing /thicknessing machines; and
• surface planing machines.

Work on all other machines must be completed by 5 December 2008.