IMPORTANT — The electronic file of this document contains colours that are considered useful for the
correct understanding of the document. Users should consider printing this document using a colour
printer. ISO 3864-1 provides colorimetric and photometric properties together with, as a guideline,
references from colour order systems.
This part of ISO 11148 applies to hand-held non-electric power tools (hereafter referred to as “non-rotary
percussive power tools”) intended for chipping, riveting, breaking of concrete and asphalt, ramming, etc. The
non-rotary percussive power tool can be powered by compressed air, hydraulic fluid or internal combustion
engines and is intended for use by one operator and supported by the operator's hand or hands, with or
without a suspension, e.g. a balancer.
This part of ISO 11148 covers
— breakers;
— bush hammers;
— chipping hammers;
— small chisels;
— engraving pens;
— needle scalers;
— pick hammers;
— pile drivers;
— portable pile drivers;
— punches;
— rammers;
— riveting hammers;
— scaling hammers;
— stone hammers;
— spades;
— tampers.
This part of ISO 11148 does not cover special requirements and modifications on non-rotary percussive power
tools for the purpose of mounting in a fixture.
This part of ISO 11148 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events when the
tools are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the
manufacturer, with the exception of the use of non-rotary percussive power tools in potentially explosive
atmospheres.