本标准采用EN 16252:2012，并对澳大利亚和新西兰进行了修改，其中规定了用于压实废料或可回收部分（如纸张、塑料、纺织品、罐头、纸板、混合废料）的水平打包机的设计、制造和安全使用信息的安全要求，以下简称材料。它仅适用于通过输送机或进料斗喂入的机器，其中捆是手动或自动捆扎的。本文件涵盖的进料斗仅采用机械或手动进料。

This Standard adopts EN 16252:2012 with modifications for Australia and New Zealand which specifies the safety requirements for the design, manufacture and information for safe use of horizontal baling presses for compacting waste material or recyclable fractions (e.g. paper, plastics, textiles, cans, cardboard, mixed waste), hereafter referred to as materials. It covers only machines fed by conveyors or by feed hoppers where the bales are bound manually or automatically. The feed hoppers covered by this document are only fed mechanically or by hand.