Hi all!!
I am considering buying a Nomad 3 for DYI projects at home and am very excited about it! I wanted to know what the safety standards are for the machine?
Thank you!!
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Hey hey 
I’ve had a Nomad3 for quite awhile now. If you’ve got any specific questions, I may be able to answer them 
To be honest I’m not sure what you mean when you say safety standards. (Maybe somebody else here does)
But as a go at answering, it’s got the usual things you would expect. The machine stops when you open the door, it’s got limit switches to prevent over traveling, the usual machine things.
The more in-depth things would depend on the material you are cutting most often but my first thoughts go to air quality control. You’ll likely want to get a little vacuum or something set up with decent filtering. Tiny particles are no good for the lungs.
Other than that, not much to say. The worst injury I’ve gotten from machining on the nomad came from my own lack of attention…removing material without paying attention to where the cutter was parked and sliding against it causing little deep cuts. That’s only happened once or twice in the many years I’ve had it and there’s no safety standards for common sense 
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Don’t know Nomad. However, Tyler answered already some issues, but still some thoughts of a self learning woodworker.
Always!!! wear goggles. The spindles are seriously fast. When a bit brakes, and that is a “when” not an “if”, that thing flies with a descent speed, breaks through some plastic with ease. A piece of a bit still sticks in a tin cover of a table saw of a carpenter friend.
With a router wear noise protection. Even if you are already hearing disabled and do not sense the noise any more: the noise waves still damage the last functioning hair cells in the ear.
NEVER!!! come near ANY moving part. ALWAYS! pause the machine first, and let it come to a complete stop. Even the zeroing mechanism when the aluminum piece is used stops only when the bit touches the aluminum surface, it does not stop for fingers or hands in between, same with reseting: the stepper motors stop when the end switches are reached, not when a finger just pushing away some dust quick in in the way.
Never let the machine work unattended. There are several reports in the internet how CNCs can be used as fire starters, these are NO! hoax. In a wood shop have fire extinguishers and fire blankets handy. That means not just in the farest corner in the cabinet, have them available where you can get them immediately. I have some fire stop devices above my tools
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0863BFNWB?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_4
the company only recommends them above a stove, and I am lucky enough that I cannot say yet whether they are useful. Those chinese fire bomb balls are not legal any more afaik, but I can assure you one cannot do too much to avoid fire.
And there is some proof that at least dark wood can cause cancer, means take care of the dust / chips, dust removing device is highly recommended too, just to get the wood chips away from the hot bit to again reduce fire risk, but also to avoid inhaling dust.
Spoken from experience of just few years.
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